Missing boy found dead in sack

A 15-year-old boy was found dead in a ditch in the capital's Uttarkhan yesterday over a month after he had gone missing from the area.

The decomposed body of the ninth-grader, Mannan, son of Tofazzal Hossain, was stuffed in a sack, said Uttarkhan Police Station Officer-in-Charge Sheikh Sirajul Haque. Locals first noticed the body and later informed police of it. The boy's parents identified Munna's body after seeing his dresses, he said, adding, a youth was detained for interrogation.