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Boy drowns in river

29 September 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Jhenidah

A 9-year-old boy drowned on Monday while bathing in the Nabaganga River. Victim Mirza Arefin was son of Tosharraf Hossain Kochi of Chaklapara in the town. Sources said, Arefin went to take a dip in the river with his friends on the day of Bijoya Dashami but he did not return. The family members could not trace his whereabouts for several hours. At last they found his body floating in the river. Arefin was a student of class four of Chaklapara kindergarten of the town.