OUR CORRESPONDENT, Tangail

Police recovered the body of a schoolboy with his throat slit from Paanchtikri area in Tangail’s Ghatail upazila on Wednesday night.

The dead was identified as Jahid Hasan, 14, a seventh-grader of Bolorampur High School. He used to operate her father’s battery-run auto-van in his free time to earn some extra money for his family and his education, Shamsul Talukder, an uncle of the victim, said.

On Wednesday evening, Jahid had taken the van out. Around 9:00pm, some locals found his body lying next to a school and informed police. Jahid’s van, however, was missing.

Azharul Islam, officer-in-charge of Ghatail Police Station, said they suspect some criminals killed Jahid to steal his van. “We will know the facts after the investigation is complete.”