Bodies of 2 missing students found

Savar Correspondent: Members of Savar Fire Service and Civil Defence recovered the bodies of two students of Dhaka’s Ideal School and College on Sunday, 24 hours after they had gone missing in the Dhaleswari River with another friend.

The first body was recovered around 11:00 am and the second one around noon.

Relatives of the deceased primarily identified the first body as Towsif Ahmed Akash, hailing from Bank Town area of Savar. The other body could not be named yet.

Fire Service’s Station Officer Liton Ahmed said 3 students of the college had come to Bank Town, adjacent to the Dhaka-Aricha Highway, for a river cruise on Saturday.

Akash, 19, Mehedi, 19, and Rajon, 19, went missing shortly after getting into the river around noon.

 

risingbd/Savar/July 28, 2019/Ariful Islam Sabbir/AI