Police recover body of missing child

Police recovered the body of an eight-year-old boy from a ditch at Laksam of Comilla yesterday, a day after he went missing.

Mohammad Hossain, son of Mostafa Kamal, a resident of Chunati Chotochandpur village, was a class-II student, said police.

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The boy went out Saturday evening to give his father a piece of warm clothing and a mobile phone, police said quoting locals.

His father was at a tea stall about 500 yards from the home but the boy never reached the stall.

The family searched for him throughout the night.

Yesterday evening, two women found his body in a secluded ditch around 600 yards from his home and informed police of the matter.

"We could not recover the mobile phone or the warm clothing. We are looking for those," said Monwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Laksam Police Station.

The police officer termed that death “mysterious” and said no injury marks were visible on the body.