Missing boy found dead in Bogura

Police have recovered the body of a four-year-old boy, who had been missing since Thursday morning, from a house of his neighbor in Bogura Sadar upazila on Friday.

The body, packed inside a sack, was reccovered from Nishindara Dhamak Para area under the upazila.

Meanwhile, the law enforcers also arrested the neighgbour Tahmina, 31, wife of Anis Mondal from Jangram village of Shibganj upazila, for her alleged connection in the incident, confirmed Sadar Police Station officer-in-charge SM Moinuddin.

The victim was identified as Mahdi Hasan, 4, son of Shafiqul Islam, a resident of  Nishindara Dhamak Para under the upazila.

According to family and local sources, Mahdi was playing in front of his house on Thursday morning. As his family members could not find him even after searching in the area around 11 AM, they filed a general diary at Sadar Police Station, the OC said.

Later, around 8 AM on Friday, police recovered Mahdi's body from the house packed inside the sack with a letter of demanding Tk 5 lakh as ransom, he said.

"It was assumed that Mahdi was kidnapped and strangled to death in target of getting ransom. Legal procedures are underway and necessary actions will be taken in this regard," added the OC.