A college student named Kawsar Hossain, 25, has drowned in a pond in Kushtia after going in to bathe with friends.
The incident took place at noon on Saturday, July 25, in the pond at DC Park.
The dead student, Kawsar Hossain, was the son of Afsar Uddin of the Islam Para area of Ishwardi upazila in Pabna. He lived with his parents in a rented house in the Udibari area of Kushtia town. Kawsar was a third-year honours student in the chemistry department of Kushtia Government College.
A friend of the dead student, Shaon, said that at about 12:30 p.m. several of them went into the pond at DC Park to bathe. They swam from one side of the pond to the other. Looking back, they saw Kawsar in the middle of the pond shouting “Save me, save me.” Shaon quickly went and tried to pull his friend Kawsar out. At one point both of them went under. Shaon then let go of his friend and came back up to the surface.
On being informed, Kushtia fire service personnel went to the scene and recovered Kawsar’s body after about an hour and a half of rescue work.
The assistant director of Kushtia fire service, Md Wadud Hossain, said that as soon as news was received of a person missing after drowning in the pond, a fire service unit went to the scene and began the rescue operation. After about an hour and a half of rescue work, Kawsar was recovered and taken to Kushtia General Hospital, where a doctor declared him dead.
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