STAR REPORT

The bodies of two young men have been recovered in two districts, report our correspondents.

In Narsingdi, the body of Monsur Ali, 25, an auto-rickshaw driver from Changao village in Madhabdi upazila, was recovered from a pond yesterday morning.

Family and locals said Monsur had gone missing since he left home on Thursday night. His body was later found floating in a pond in the same village.

Police recovered the body and sent it to the hospital morgue for autopsy, said Kamal Hossain, officer-in-charge of Madhabdi Police Station. The cause of death could not be confirmed immediately.

“My son had no known enmity with anyone. I cannot understand why he was killed... ,” said Monsur’s father, Motalib.

In Kishoreganj, police recovered the decomposed body of Abir Hossain, 20, from a maize field in Angrail Haor under Nikli upazila Thursday evening.

Abir, a resident of Bhatiboratia Uttar Para, had been missing since March 9, said family. A complaint was filed with the police on March 13.

Locals discovered the body and informed police. Two people were arrested in this regard, said Rafiqul Islam, OC of Nikli Police Station.