Boy drowns in river

A seven-year-old boy drowned in the Changi River in Shantinagar area under Sadar upazila yesterday. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Shanta, son of Mohammad Alamgir Hossain of the area. Officer in-charge of Khagrachhari Sadar police station Mostafizur Rahman said, while playing near the bank in the morning, Shanta fell into the river near his house and drowned. His relatives rescued him from the river around 1:30pm and sent him to the local hospital where the on-duty doctor declared him dead.