Two people drowned and one school boy went missing while taking a bath in the Padma River at Tongibari in Munshiganj today.
The deceased have been identified as Riyadh Ahmed Raju, 45, an additional chief engineer of Bangladesh Railway, and banker Jewel Rana, 40.
The engineer’s son, Riyadh Ramin Arid, a Class 10 student at Milestone School, went missing in the incident, chief of Dighirpar Police Investigation Centre Ansaruzzaman said.
The incident, he said, occurred in the river near Dhankora Bazar under Dighirpar union under the upazila around 4 p.m.
A group of 30-35 people from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area took a boat ride in the river a day on Eid-ul-Fitr holiday this afternoon, he added.
Of them, 10–12 people stopped the boat near Dhankora to take a bath in the river, and three of them went on mission, he said.
Being informed, members of the Fire Service from Munshiganj Sadar and Tongibari Upazila and river police rushed to the spot and recovered the bodies of the two.
They are still carrying out operations to rescue the missing schoolboy.
