A 40-year-old housewife met a tragic end after accidently falling off a picnic boat in the Ichamati River in Kamarkhand upazila of Sirajganj on Monday.
The deceased Sufia Khatun was wife of Sirajul Islam of Bhodroghat village under the upazila.
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Rezaul Islam, officer-in-charge of Kamarkhan police station, said workers of a local textile mill were going to a picnic spot in Shahjadpur upazila of the district by boat in the morning.
Though Sufia was not an employee of the factory, she in association with her sister-in-law who is a staff of the factory, took the chance to board on the picnic team.
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She fell off the boat in the river when her legs accidently slipped, he said, adding that locals retrieved the body from the river after a while.
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The body was handed over to the family without autopsy upon their request, the OC said.