Police on Friday morning recovered the body of a school boy from the Kirtipasha canal in Jhalakathi, who reportedly went missing the previous day.
The victim’s father, a day-labour Anwar Hossain said his son Mehedi Hasan, 12, a Class-VI student of Kirtipasha Prosanno Kumar School, left home to deposit a loan installment at around 3pm Thursday and did not return.
Later, fishermen on Kirtipasha canal recovered Mehedi’s body at around 7am Friday and informed the police.
Jhalakathi Sadar police station Officer-in-Charge Shilmoni Chakma said police recovered the dead body and found injury marks on the ears and others parts of the body.
“There were also marks on his throat and the neck was broken,” he added
The dead body was sent to Jhalakathi General Hospital for an autopsy and then handed over to his family members in the afternoon.
Meanwhile, the victim’s father has filed a case with Jhalakathi police, accusing two neighboring brothers, Russell, 20, and Rakib, 18, of killing his son over a cricket match dispute.
Russell and Rakib had threatened Mehedi over a dispute in a local cricket match. They abducted my son in a pre-planned way and then killed him, alleged the victim’s father.
Later, locals detained the two accused and their father Halim and handed them over to police for interrogation, police sources confirmed.