Police have recovered the body of a 16-year-old schoolgirl in Mirzaganj, Patuakhali, two days after she went missing.
The body was found at about 9am on Thursday (5 November) beside a betel leaf garden in Andua Machhuakhali village of Dakshin Ghatak in the upazila.
She was a Class 10 student at Subidkhali Government Rahman Ishaque Pilot Secondary School and lived in Andua village of Dakshin Ghatak.
She left home on Tuesday morning to sit a test examination at school. When she did not return on time, her mother checked with the school and learned that she had never arrived.
Her father said a woman named Momtaz saw the girl’s shoes beside the betel leaf garden on Thursday morning. During a search of the area, he found her body beside the garden. Police were called and recovered the body.
Md Tauhiduzzaman, officer-in-charge of Mirzaganj police station, said the body of a schoolgirl had been recovered from Andua in Ghatak and would be sent to Patuakhali for a post-mortem. The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and police are working on the case, and legal action will be taken based on the findings of the investigation, he said.
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