A madrasa pupil, Maisa Ilhan Nua (7), has died in mysterious circumstances on her way home from madrasa in Sadar upazila of Noakhali.
On Tuesday morning police sent the body to Noakhali 250-bed General Hospital for a post-mortem.
Earlier, on Monday (9 November) afternoon, local people found her body lying beside a road behind a house in Mahtapur village of Maramtua Union in the upazila.
Maisa Ilhan Nua was the daughter of Iqbal Hossain of the Abul Hossain Master house in South Nayanpur village, Chhayani Union, Begumganj upazila. She was a first-year pupil at Mahtapur Nurani Madrasa in Mahtapur village, Sadar upazila.
According to local sources, her family’s home is in Nayanpur village of Chhayani Union in Begumganj, on the border of Sadar upazila. Nua studied at the Nurani madrasa in neighbouring Mahtapur village, Sadar upazila. Every day she went to the madrasa in the morning, came home at midday to eat and went back again. On Monday afternoon, on her way home from the madrasa, local people found her body behind a house beside a road in Mahtapur village. They then informed police.
Md Nazrul Islam, officer in charge (OC) of Sudharam Model Police Station, said: “Police went to the scene after receiving a call on the national emergency number 999. The body was then recovered and sent to Noakhali General Hospital for a post-mortem.”
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