Student's body recovered from Sylhet's river

SYLHET, July 08 (UNB): A student of Dhaka Residential Model College who went missing while taking a bath at the Piyain River in Sylhet's Jaflong on Friday, was found dead after two days on Saturday.

The dead is Al-waz Arash (15), is a ninth grader at the institution and son of police inspector Zahedul Hossain, a resident of Shidlai village in Brahmanpara upazila of Cumilla.

According to the tourist police and local sources, Arash along with his parents and younger brother came to Jaflong from Dhaka on Thursday afternoon.

Around 3:30pm while Arash and his father went to Piyain River to take bath and they drowned.

Later, local people managed to rescue Zahedul but Arash went missing.

Police recovered the floating body of Arash around 7:00 am on Saturday from the Zero Point area of the river, said KM Nazrul Islam, officer-in-charge of Goainghat thana.