3 held over Cumilla schoolboy’s ‘murder’

Three people have been detained for questioning over the murder of Cumilla’s Ishayat Shahriar Apratim.

Mofiz Uddin Bhuiyan, Cumilla Kotbari Police Outpost chief, on Saturday said the suspects were detained based on clues from CCTV footage.

Apratim, 13, had left home with his mother’s iPhone to take pictures with friends and went missing.

His body was recovered around noon Saturday from the foot of a hill at Dakkhin Mor in Salmanpur, beside Cumilla University.

A Class 7 student at Border Guard Public School, Apratim was the son of Nahida Begum, an associate professor in the university’s Bangla department.

Prof Mahmud Hasan, dean of the university’s Faculty of Engineering and a neighbour and colleague of Nahida, had been reviewing CCTV footage since morning.

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