The victims were admitted to local health complex in critical condition after being recovered by the local people.

Police and victims' family sources said the widow, 40, and her daughter, 13, (a student of class six) returned home after visiting the Durga Puja mandops at about 11:00pm and went into sleep in their shanty at Alamdi village under Uzirpur upazila in the district.

About an hour later, Russel Howladar, son of Hossain Howladar of West Satla and Eshaque Bali, son of Asmat Bali of Alamdi, entered the shanty by breaking the door open.

They made the mother and daughter hostage at gunpoint and started raping the mother in front of her daughter.

When the daughter tried to run away, the other unidentified associates of Russel and Eshaque waiting outside the shanty caught her and gangraped after taking her to a nearby bush.

The locals recovered the daughter from the bush in unconscious condition in the early morning and rushed both the victims to upazila health complex.

Brother-in-law of the widow lodged a case under prevention of women and children repression act, but none was arrested so far.

The incident has created panic among the members of the minority community.

Rashed Khan Menon, president of the Workers' Party, visited the victims at the health complex and gave assistances for their treatment.

He also condemned the incident and demanded immediate arrest of the rapists.

Menon said under the alliance government no body is safe even inside their houses.

The alleged miscreants are influential persons who are blessed by the powerful quarters of the ruling party, it is learnt.