Missing DU student’s body retrieved from Bhairab river

block
UNB, Khulna :
The body of a missing Dhaka University student was retrieved from a ferry ghat area of Bhairab river adjacent to Senhati bazar in Rupsa upazila on Saturday morning after he had gone missing on Thursday night.
The deceased was
identified as Khalid Hasan, 19, a 3rd year student of Pharmacy Department of the university, and son of Jalal Uddin, hailing from Shariatpur district.
Md Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Rupsa Police Station, said that Khalid slipped into the Rupsa river around 8pm on Thursday while he getting up into a trawler along with his brother Jahid Hasan, and went missing. A diver team of fire service carried out rescue drive till Friday but failed to trace Khalid.
Locals spotted Khalid’s body in the river around 9am and informed police. Later police recovered the body and handed it over to his family members around 12pm, the OC added.
block