The 11-year-old Abu Bakkar was found dead on Tuesday afternoon by the Fire Service personnel. Bakkar, a fifth grader of a local school in Ramu Upazila, went to bathe in the river with his friends on Monday, the day Eid-Ul-Fitr was held in Bangladesh. Quoting Bakkar’s friends, Ramu Upazila Chiarman Reazul Alam said Bakkar drowned at one point of bathing. “Cox’s Bazar Fire Service and Civil Defence started a search the same day and finally found the body in the river’s Omkhali portion.”The body was handed to his family, he said.

Source: bd News24 June 27, 2017 13:07 UTC