College student drowns
A college student drowned and another was injured while swimming in river Piain at Zaflong in Goainghat upazila here on Friday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Shahriar Soumik, 27, a HSC student of Government Science College of Dhaka and son of Md Mamun, a resident of West Rajabazaar in the capital. Locals said, seven students of the college, who arrived here from Dhaka on Friday, were swimming in the river Piain in the afternoon after visiting the house of a friend in neighbouring Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district. At one stage, Soumik and Salman got stuck in quicksand while swimming. Hearing their scream, locals rushed to the spot, rescued the youths and sent them to Jaintapur upazila health complex where doctors declared Soumik dead.
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