A 13-year-old boy was strangled to death in Bogura’s Gabtoli upazila on Saturday night.
The deceased, Md Sifat, was a seventh-grade student at Gabtoli Pilot High School and the son of Hafizur Rahman Mollah from Uttarpara village.
Ashiq Iqbal, officer-in-charge (OC) of Gabtoli Model Police Station, said locals found Sifat’s body near a pond adjacent to the Eidgah ground in Unchurki Uttarpara on Saturday night.
They immediately took him to Gabtoli Upazila Health Complex, where on-duty doctors declared him dead.
Dr. Abul Bashar, the attending physician, said that the boy had been strangled, with visible fingerprints found on his neck.
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Police are investigating the incident, and the body was sent to the hospital morgue for an autopsy, said the OC.