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Schoolboy drowns

30 November 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

Staff Correspondent, Ctg

A schoolboy drowned in a pond at village Chunati under Lohagara upazila of the district on Sunday. The boy, Rafiul Hossain Rafi, 12, was a class VI student of Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College. Son of Hasan Mahmud Shamsher, assistant personal secretary to Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, Rafi went to their village home at Chunati on Friday to celebrate Eid-ul Azha with his family. He went to a nearby pond to have a bath at around 12:30pm on Sunday and drowned. Later, the body was found floating, sources said.