KU student drowns in university pond

KHULNA, June 22 (UNB): A student of Khulna University (KU) drowned in the pond of Khan Bahadur Ahsanaullah Hall on the campus on Sunday.

The deceased was identified as Shahriar Hossain Shanta, a first year student of Physics Department of the university and son of Belal Hossain, a resident of Sidheshwari Road in the city's Ramna area. Witnesses said Shanta along with his some of his friends went to the pond to take a bath around 3:00 pm.

Suddenly he slipped and drowned into the pond water.

Later, locals found the floating body of Shanto around 6:00 pm and he was rushed to Khulna Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead.