Police recovered the body of a teenager from a pond in Sarshabari upazila of Jamalpur district on Thursday noon, four days after he went missing.
Deceased Khkon Mia, 15, was the son Rustam Ali, a resident of Char Jamira village in the upazila. He was an epilepsy patient, family said.
Quoting the family, Sarishabari Police Station officer in-charge Md Fajlul Karim said Khokon went out of the house on Monday morning and did not return home. Sine then, had been missing.
However, the family members lodged a general diary with the police station in his missing.
Later, locals spotted the body in the pond near Jamira Bazar and informed police.
After recovery, police handed the body over to the family without an autopsy, he added.
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