Farmer goes missing while swimming across the Teesta
A farmer went missing while swimming across the Teesta river in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram today.
Around noon, Badiuzzaman (56) was swimming in the river by himself at Thetrai union in the upazila, Thetrai Union Parishad Chairman Ayub Ali Sarkar told our Lalmonirhat correspondent.
Badiuzzaman was returning to his home at Nagarpara village after workinig on the char, he said.
Locals searched in vain for five hours to find him.
The water level of the river was lower in the morning but it increased suddenly to onrush of water from upstream, Ayub Ali Sarkar said.
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