The decomposed body of a class eight student was recovered from a drum two days after he was abducted in Patharghata upazila of Barguna district on Sunday night.

The deceased Hasibul Islam, 14, is son of Shafiqul Islam of Dakshin Patharghata area under Patharghata municipality and a student of a local madrasa.

Police, however, arrested eight people including the prime accused in this connection.

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The arrestees included prime accused Abdullah Al Noman alias Tanvir, 19, son of Mohibullah of Bandurtala village in Patharghata Sadar union, Rahim Kazi, 45, Abdur Rahim Munshi, 40, Yunus, 65, Jasim, 30, Tanzil, 23, Tahira, 19, and Rahima, 45.

Shah Alam Hawlader, officer-in-charge of Patharghata police station, said Noman called Hasibul to go with him for visiting Durga Puja on Friday evening.

Later, he took Hasibul to a house of one of his relatives on Imam Ali Road in Pathaghata municipality and made him unconscious by swallowing a sleeping pill, he said.

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He tortured the student and filmed it on video and sent it to his father’s mobile phone with a demand for Tk 3 lakh as ransom, the OC said, adding that Noman threatened to kill Hasibul once the ransom was not provided.

The victim’s father lodged a general diary in this connection later.

As the ransom was not given, the accused strangled the student to death and dumped the body into a river dam keeping it in a drum, police said.

With the help of technology, prime accused Noman was arrested from his father-in-law’s house in Charduani area on Sunday night, the OC said.

The body was recovered from the drum upon his statement.

The accused were produced before a Barguna court on Monday noon, he added.

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