Youth murdered

Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi
Police recovered the body of a young man from a roadside crop field at Chalk Jaynagar village in Durgapur upazila on Tuesday. The deceased, Mohammad Royal, 22, of Tarash in Sirajganj district, was an auto-rickshaw driver. The body was sent to Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) morgue for autopsy. “He might have been strangled as a rope was tied around his neck”, said Wahidul Islam, officer in-charge of Durgapur police station. Victim's cousin Rezaur Rahman said that Royal went out of house with his auto-rickshaw on Sunday morning and since then he went missing. On information, the family members rushed to RMCH on Tuesday morning and identified the body, he added.