Schoolboy murdered

A Correspondent, Jamalpur
Police recovered the body of a nine-year-old boy from a sugercane field in Madererchar Masterpara village under Dewanganj upazila of the district on Wednesday morning. The deceased, identified as Abdur Rahim alias Babu, son of Sabur Ali of the village, was a Class Two student of Madererchar Masterpara Registered Primary School. Victim's father said, Babu went out of the house to attend a function at the village on Tuesday evening. As Babu did not return home even after the programme was over at around 2.00am, the family members looked for him here and there for a couple of hours. Finally locals found the body lying in cropfield, around 300 metres away from the boy's house at around 10.30am. Police said that the boy was hacked to death.