Dhaka, Sep 17 (UNB)- Members of Border Guard Bangladesh  (BGB) arrested an alleged female drug dealer along with 1,897 Yaba pills from Kamalpur frontier of Bakshiganj upazila in Jamalpur district on Tuesday.

The arrestee is Majeda Begum , 35, wife of Nuru Mia of Char Bamunerchar village under Roumari upazila in Kurigram district.

The BGB members also recovered two mobile phone sets and Tk 9,810 in cash from his possession.

Commanding Officer of 35 BGB battalion Lt Col SM Azad said tipped off a BGB team conducted a drive at Dhanua Kamalpur Bazar around 10:45 am and arrested Majeda along with the Yaba pills.

She was handed over to Bakshiaonj police station.

Bagerhat, Sept 17 (UNB) – Police recovered the body of a madrasa student beside a toilet at Bodlibhanga village in Morelganj upazila on Tuesday morning.

The deceased was identified as Siam Mollah,6, son of Miraz Mollah of Bodlibhanga village .

K M Azizul Islam, officer-in-charge of Morelganj police station said Siam, who used to live with his step-mother, remained missing since Sunday evening.

Police detained his step-mother Ferdousi on suspicion after the incident and interrogated her.

Later according to her statement, police recovered the body digging soil beside the toilet of the house.

Ferdousi confessed that she strangled the body to death as per her previous plan and buried the body under soil, said the OC.

Siam’s grandmother Sahela Begum filed  a murder case.

Bagerhat, Sept 17 (UNB) - Divers recovered the body of a man, who went missing in the Bhairab River while bathing on Monday, from Kebighat in Sadar upazila here on Tuesday morning.

The deceased was identified as Sohel Sheikh, 38, son of Abdul Mazid of Baghmara village in the area.

Masud Sardar, deputy assistant director of Bagerhat Fire Station, said Sohel went missing on Monday noon while bathing in the river in Old Bazar area.

Two units of Bagerhat and Khulna fire service launched a rescue operation Monday and found the body one and half kms off the spot today, he said.

Keraniganj, Sept 17 (UNB) – The body of an unidentified teenage boy was recovered the Buriganga River at Pagla here on Tuesday morning.

Shah Zaman, officer-in-charge of South Keraniganj Police Station, said they recovered the body of the teen, aged around 15, on information and sent it to Sir Salimullah Medical College and Mitford Hospital for autopsy.

The teenager was draped in red trousers and a T-shirt, he said.

Mymensingh, Sept 17 (UNB) – Train communications of Mymensingh with other parts of the country remained suspended since Tuesday morning following the derailment of a train in Sadar upazila.

A bogie of Dewanganj-bound Teesta Express train veered off the tracks at Kewatkhali, 2 kms off Mymensingh Railway Station, around 11am, said M Mosharraf Hossain, officer-in-charge of Mymensingh Railway Police Station. 

On information, a relief train from the Mymensingh Railway Station rushed in to salvage the derailed compartment, he said.