A 17-year-old schoolboy drowned at a waterfall inside the Chittagong University campus while taking a bath in Hathazari upazila of Chattogram district on Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Rakibul Rashid, class X student of Railway Public High School in Pahartoli area.
Rakibul along with his friends went to the Chittagong University campus to visit the university area, said Senior Section Officer of Hathazari Fire Service and Civil Defense, Mohammad Shahjahan.
There, they went to the waterfall inside the campus in the afternoon.
At one stage, Rakibul slipped in the waterfall and went missing while taking a bath there at noon.
On information, a team of firefighters rushed to the spot and recovered Rakibul's body around 3pm from the area.
Later he was taken to the university hospital where the on-duty doctor declared him dead.