Video footage has emerged showing a Bangladeshi teen being forced to tearfully recount allegations of rape to police shortly before she was burned to death.
Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, was filmed by officers after she went to a police station to accuse the headmaster of her school of touching her inappropriately last month.
The video was then leaked online, sparking a backlash against Rafi and her family that ended with her being set alight by a gang of burqa-clad students at her school.
She suffered 80 per cent burns to her body and died in hospital four days later, but not before recounting what had happened.
Her death sparked public outcry and police have since arrested 17 people, one of who has told them the attack was ordered by the headmaster himself.
The teacher 'told them to put pressure on Rafi to withdraw the case or kill her if she refused', senior police superintendent Mohammad Iqbal, who is leading the investigation, told AFP.
Rafi had gone to police in late March to report the sexual harassment, and a leaked video shows the local police station chief Moazzem Hossain registering her complaint but dismissing it as 'not a big deal'.
When she begins crying he adds: 'Stop crying, nothing happened that you have to cry.'
But officers did not arrest or question the man, and instead the video found its way into local media.
Rafi was lured to the roof on the pretext that one of her friends was being beaten up there.
Instead, she was confronted by a group of four or five people wearing burqas who demanded that she drop her complaint against the headmaster.
When she refused, the group held her down, poured kerosene over her and set her alight before fleeing.
Iqbal said at least five of those under arrest, including three of Rafi's classmates, had tied her up with a scarf before setting her on fire.
Teen recounts rape ordeal to police in Bangladesh before being burned
WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, was forced to recount allegations of rape against the headmaster of her Islamic school in Bangladesh to police while they filmed her.
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