Schoolboy murdered in Jashore

Police recovered the body of a schoolboy with his throat slit from a paddy field at Sarkati village in Monirampur upazila of Jashore yesterday.

The deceased was Shimul Hossain, 15, son of Rafiqul Islam, and an SSC candidate from Kashimpur High School in the upazila.

“Shimul was watching television when someone called him over mobile around 11:00pm on Tuesday. He went out from the house but did not return,” said the deceased's mother Poly Begum.