The blood-stained body of an 11-year-old boy was found in a canal near his home in Jhalakathi’s Rajapur upazila on Tuesday evening.
The deceased, Shahriar Islam Towhid, 11, was a fourth grader and son of Milon Howlader.
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His father Milon said Towhid went missing while he was on his way back home from school and later his body carrying several injury marks was found floating in the canal.
Towhid was taken to a hospital but the doctors declared him dead upon arrival.
He demanded justice for the killing of his son.
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Firoz Kamal, officer-in-charge of Rajapur police station, said the boy’s body was found in Tafalbari canal and it has been kept in the morgue for an autopsy.
Police will take necessary legal actions, he added.