Jashore, Dec 11 (UNB) – Police recovered the body of a schoolboy with his throat slashed from a field at Sarkati village in Monirampur upazila on Tuesday morning.
The deceased was identified as Shimul Hossain, 16, an SSC candidate from Kashimpur High School and son of Rafiqul Islam of the village here.
Deceased’s mother Poly Begum said Shimul and some of his friends enjoyed a picnic party at Kashimpur High School ground on Monday and returned home in the evening.
He was watching television when someone called him over mobile phone around 9pm and he went out again, this time never to return.
Locals, however, found his body in the crop field in morning around 10 am and informed the police, she added.
On information police recovered the throat-slit body from the field and sent it to Jessore General Hospital for autopsy, said Md Saidul Islam, officer-in-charge of Monirampur Police Station.