Mysterious death
Mystery shrouded the death of SSC student Mizanur Rahman, son of Idris Pada of Sabujbagh area in the district town.
Quoting family members, police said Mizanur was reading in his room Wednesday evening while other members of the family went to a nearby residence for watching a TV programme.
Morium Begum, mother of the victim, entered the house at about 9:00pm and found the body hanging from the ceiling of the room.
Morium said earlier, some local youths forcibly brought an unidentified boy into their residence at around 5:00pm and beat him up mercilessly.
The youths then gave Mizanur death threat as he protested the assault, she added. She alleged that the gang killed her son following the incident.
Md Monirul Islam, officer in-charge of Patuakhali police station, said criminals might have strangled Mizanur and hung his body from the ceiling of the house.
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