Police recovered the body of a madrasa student from a canal in Sadar upazila of Pabna district on Saturday afternoon, four days after he had gone missing.
Deceased Belal Hossain, 10, was Class II student at Shrikol Forkania Madrasa and son of Afzal Hossain of Chomarpur village in the upazila.
Police and locals said family members filed a general diary with police station on Wednesday mentioning that Belal went out with his father's van just as a hobby on Tuesday but did not return home.
Later, a team of police's detective branch found Belal dead in a canal beside Bharara Masjid this afternoon and sent the body to hospital morgue for autopsy.
Confirming the matter, DB sub-inspector Osin Kumar Basak said they detained Mukul, a resident of the village, in connection with the incident.
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