One drown, 2 missing after Holi celebrations
Children spraying colours on each other as residents of Tantibazar in Old Dhaka celebrate the Holi festival yesterday. The Hindu communities celebrate the festival of colours, marking the arrival of spring.
PHOTO: Rashed Shumon
A schoolboy drowned and two others went missing after they went to bathe in the Jamuna and Fuljor rivers in Sirajganj on Friday.
Rescuers of Fire Service recovered the body of Sonjit Kormokar, 16, on Friday evening. An operation was underway to find out Sokal Sutra Dhar, 15, and Shuvo Chandra, 15.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The three, all tenth graders, went to bathe in the rivers after attending "Dol" festival. They did not know how to swim.
Md Shohidul Islam, officer-in-charge of Raiganj Police Station in Sirajganj, confirmed this to The Daily Star.
Diren Sutra Dhar, grandfather of Sokal Sutra Dhar, said his grandson along with a few other children went to the river to bathe without informing family members. He went missing since then.
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