Published on 12:00 AM, September 22, 2012

Falling from Boat

Missing student's body recovered

The body of a college student who went missing after falling from a boat on August 25 was recovered from the river Teesta at Madhupur Gonaier Char in Kaunia upazila on Thursday.
The victim Jisan Ahmed, 24, son of Mokbul Hossain of Alamnagar Colony area in the city, was a second year honours student of Charmichael College.
Locals recovered his body while it was floating in the river.
Jisan's brother Md Arman told The Daily Star that Jisan and his four friends went to visit Teesta Road Bridge by a boat on August 25.
Later, Jisan and one of his friends, Mohammad Danis, drowned in the river as they fell from the boat due to tidal force.
The boatman rescued Danis while Jisan had been missing.