Two higher secondary certificate examinees of Agorpur Degree College went missing since Tuesday evening from Sharikal area under Gournadi upazila of Barisal.
The victims were identified as Kazi Shahriar Anik, son of Aktaruzzaman, and Sohag Khan, son of rickshaw van driver Shahid Khan and both of them hailed from Mahisha village under Sharikal union of Gournadi upazila.
Aktaruzzaman, a teacher of Agorpur Degree College, told his son and Sohag were friends and HSC examinees of Agorpur Degree College.
Abul Kalam, officer- in-charge of Gournadi police station, said Anik’s father lodged a general diary in connection with the missing of the two youths in yesterday morning and then it was turned into a kidnapping case in the same afternoon.
Both of the victims went for a stroll on Tuesday evening and subsequently went missing since that night. Anik’s mother claimed that she received a cell phone call from her son around 2:20am early yesterday, told Sub-Inspector Ahsan Kabir, investigating officer of the case.
Anik hurriedly informed her that unidentified people riding on a motor vehicle at Sakokati rickshaw stand asked them to show the way to Sharikal and they became senseless after that.
They found that they were taken hostage by those unknown people when they regained sense. Anik switched off the phone telling hurriedly that he secretly called her mother and those people might their hear conversation, the IO said.
Police were trying to trace the call phone call and arrest those unknown kidnappers to recover the missing youths, he said.
