Sylhet: Police arrested another accused in connection with the murder of teenage boy Rajon from Sheikhpara in Sylhet city on Friday morning, raising the number of arrestees to eight.

The arrestee was identified as Ali Haider.

Jalalabad Police officer-in-charge Akhter Hossain said local people caught Haider at about 11:30am and handed him over to police.

Earlier on 8 July, the 13-year-old boy, Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajon, son of Sheikh Azizur Rahman of Badeali village in Sadar upazila, was brutally tortured to death over a theft at Sundar Ali Market in Kumargaon area of the city.

The killers themselves took the video footage of the incident and uploaded it on the internet.

The video clip went viral on social networking site Facebook and video-sharing site Youtube which caused a widespread outcry.