The dead body of a university student, who had been missing since Monday after falling from a boat into the Karnaphuli River, was recovered by the police from the Sadarghat area, Chittagong, on Tuesday night.
Ridwanul Haque Raktim, 26, was a BBA student of International Islamic University Chittagong and the son of Abdul Mahid Mridha of the Kalyanpur area under the Mirpur police station in Dhaka, said police sources.
Pranab Chowdhury, officer-in-charge of Sadarghat police station, said the police recovered the floating body from the Anu Mazhir Ghat area by the Karnaphuli River on Tuesday at 9:30pm.
The body was sent to the Chittagong Medical College Hospital morgue for an autopsy while an unnatural death case was filed with the police station, added the OC.