The body of a madrasha student, who went missing on Wednesday afternoon, was recovered from a maize field in Sadar upazila of Thakurgaon on Thursday morning.
Md Murad Hossain, 11, was son of Darul Islam of Gilabari village under Mohammadpur union of the upazila and a residential student of a local Matherganj Hafezia Madrasha.
Police said Murad went missing after offering the Asr prayer at the madrasha on Wednesday.
Local farmers found the body lying in the maize field nearby local Matherganj MB High School when they went there to work on Thursday morning.
Md Kamal Hossain, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said on information they recovered the body and sent it to Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy. The blood-stained clothes of the victim were also recovered from a bamboo bush beside the maize field.
Primarily it seemed that he was murdered but the exact reason for the death will be known after getting the autopsy report, he said, adding that an investigation is underway in this regard.