Missing boy found dead

A six-year-old boy, who went missing on Thursday, was found dead in a ditch adjacent to their house at Daitala village in Sadar upazila of Jessore yesterday.The deceased was identified as Abu Hanif, son of Mohammad Zinnah of the village. Police said local people found the body of Hanif floating in the ditch and informed them.They (police) went to the spot, recovered the body and sent it to the hospital morgue for autopsy. The reason behind the death could not be known as of 5:00pm yesterday.