Man drowns falling from Ctg waterfall

A man drowned after falling from a waterfall in Mirsarai upazila of Chittagong yesterday.

Deceased Animesh Dey, 26, was the son of Nironjan Kumar Dey, of Oxygen area in the port city. He was a former student of Petroleum and Mining Engineering Department at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in Sylhet, police said.

Animesh along with his two friends went to visit the waterfall at Napitta Chhara and started bathing there. Suddenly, he fell 30-40 feet down into the bottom of the waterfall around 3:30pm, witnesses said.

Later, divers from Chittagong and a team of Mirsarai Fire Service and Civil Defence recovered the body around 7:30pm, said Imtiaz Bhuiyan, officer-in-charge of Mirsarai Police Station.

Animesh completed his graduation from SUST two years ago and was preparing to go the USA for studies after obtaining a very good score in Graduate Record Examination (GRE), said his friend Sohrab Mostafa Rekon, director of GRE Centre, Chittagong.

He added that Animesh had been working part-time at his centre for the last few months.

Animesh already got into a couple of universities in the USA and was trying for a scholarship, Sohrab added.

Sohrab said his friend did not know how to swim.

The body would be handed over to the family without autopsy as the family did not file any complaint, said the OC.