Members of the Fire Service and Civil Defense have recovered the body of a schoolboy two days after he had gone in the Fuljor River in Sirajganj.
The deceased was identified as Shuvo, 14, a class X student of a local high school and son of Sukumar Chandra of Chandaikona union of Raiganj upazila.
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Ataur Rahman, station officer of Sirajganj Fire Service and Civil Defense, said Shuvo and some of his friends went to the river for bathing after Holi festival on Friday afternoon and at one stage Shuvo drowned.
Fire service members and divers from Rajshahi could not trace the body even after searching for two days but the locals spotted his body on Sunday morning, he said.
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Raiganj Police officer-in-charge (OC) Mohammad Shahidul Islam police recovered the body and handed it over to his family.