Sylhet: A fourth-grader schoolgirl was raped by two youths at Khursupur village in Osmaninagar upazila on Saturday morning.

Locals said the girl was collecting some vegetables from the field near her house in the morning around 10 am.

Then Ismail and his associate Hafizur ushered the girl to an under construction building site where they forcibly violated her.

Hearing the screaming of the girl, locals rushed in when the rapists managed to flee from the scene.

Later, the girl was taken to one stop crisis center at Osmani Medical College Hospital, locals added.

Al-Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Osmaninagar Police Station, said soon after the incident, police arrested one rapist -Ismail, 26, son of Chadik Ullah of the village.

Police started conducting drives to arrest the other rapist Hafizur. A case was filed with the police station in this connection, the OC added.