Missing schoolboy found dead

An 11-year-old schoolboy was found dead in a pond at Shibpur upazila under the district yesterday, two days after he went missing.

The deceased, Bappi Bhuiya, son of newspaper hawker Kawsar Bhuiya of Giddapara village in the upazila, was a Class II student of Pubergaon Government Primary School in the area.

Bappi took a job at a poultry farm near his house to help his family.

Family members said the owner of the farm Ferdousi Begum called the boy from his house to her farm on Tuesday night to get some work done.

But Bappi remained untraced since that night. As he did not turn up, his father made announcement about the missing of his son through a loudspeaker in the area, they said.

Khandaker Imam Hossain, officer-in-charge of Shibpur Police Station, said some locals saw the boy's dead body in a pond of Pubergao village and informed the police.

Police found his body in a sack floating on the pond water at the village.

The body was sent to Narsingdi Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.

The boy's employer Ferdousi Begum and her mother were detained for interrogation, said the OC.