Dhaka, Feb. 26 -- Police have said the 14-year-old schoolgirl stabbed to death in Dhaka's Rayerbazar on Wednesday night was called out of her home over a phone call by the suspect.

Citing CCTV footage from the scene, police said the victim Shahriar Sharmin Binti was seen walking and talking with the suspect Siam, identified with a single name, shortly before the attack.

Siam, the sole suspect in the murder case, was arrested on Thursday morning from a house in Kalabagan.

Police also recovered the knife used in the murder, along with blood-stained clothes worn by the suspect.

At a press briefing on Thursday afternoon, Masud Alam, deputy commissioner of the DMP's Ramna Division, said the suspect claimed to have been in a four-year roman...