Expat jumped into river, still missing

A Saudi Arabia expatriate youth, who jumped into the Brahmaputra river after being chased by a group of rival people in Gafargaon upazila on Tuesday, is yet to be traced.

The victim is Sabuj Mia, 28, son of Shahid Mia of Lamkaine village, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Gafargaon Police Station AKM Mahbub Alam said.

Quoting the victim's family members, the OC said one Ali Newaz, a manpower broker of the village, took Tk 10.5 lakh from Shahid to send his other two sons Russel and Parvez to Malaysia more than six months ago.

As his two sons could not fly for Malaysia in the schedule time, Shahid asked Newaz to return his money.

As a sequel, Shahid along with his sons and relatives went to the upazila sub-registrar's office and demanded the money from Newaz when he came there to sell a piece of land on Tuesday.

While returning home around 3:00pm, as Shahid and others reached Imambari area, Newaz along with some of his hired goons allegedly attacked them with sharp weapons.

While running here and there to save his life, at one stage, Sabuj jumped into the Brahmaputra and went missing, the OC added.