Trader found dead

Police recovered the throat-slit body of a trader from Bhairab river near Churamankathi area of Jashore on Sunday.

The deceased, Golam Mostafa, 50, a timber trader, was son of Pachu Mandal of Bagdanga village in Jashore Sadar upazila.

Churamankathi Union Parishad Chairman Abdul Mannan Munna said Mostafa went out of his house on Saturday night and did not returned home.

Local people spotted his body floating in the river and informed the police, Officer in Charge (OC) of Jashore Kotwali Police Station Moniruzzaman said, adding that, they recovered the body and sent it to Jashore General Hospital for autopsy.