Bangladesh trafficking gang lured girls using TikTok: Police

Eleven suspects arrested for luring girls and women into India’s sex trade using the social media platform.

At least 11 people have been arrested for being suspected members of a Bangladesh trafficking gang that lured girls and women into neighbouring India’s sex trade using the social media platform TikTok, Dhaka police said. The gang’s alleged ringleader Rafizul Islam Ridoy – nicknamed TikTok Ridoy – would “lure young girls from TikTok and other social media groups, promising to make them TikTok models”, Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) paramilitary unit said on Tuesday. But the victims were instead smuggled into southern India and forced into sex work, according to a RAB statement.