‘Missing’ youth found murdered

The body of a youth, who went missing from Bheramara in Kushtia on December 6, was found floating on the Meghna River at Pakshey in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna yesterday.
According to family sources, Md Joynal Hossain, 25, son of Ajmesh Ali of Tangail Sadar upazila, went to Bheramara to meet one of his friends and on December 6 and since then he had been missing.
Officer in-Charge Biman Kumar Das of Ishwardi Police Station said locals found a body floating on the river in the morning and informed police.
Police went to the spot, recovered the body and sent it to Pabna Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
The reason behind the murder is yet to be unearthed, OC said, adding the killers dumped the body into the river.