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Youth found dead on Ctg-Cox’s Bazar highway

  • Staff Correspondent
  • 22 January, 2023 12:00 AM
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Youth found dead on Ctg-Cox’s Bazar highway

CHATTOGRAM: A youth was found dead beside the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway in the port city on Saturday.

 The deceased was identified as Md Kayes, 33, son of Abu Taher of village Jiri in Patiya upazila under the district.

 Officer in-Charge (OC) Dulal Mahmud of Karnaphuli Police Station said on information, police recovered the body of Kayes from the highway near the CDA Residential Area.

 The body bore six to seven marks of injury by sharp weapons in belly, chest and other parts of his body, he said. The officer suspected that Kayes might have been killed somewhere else and the murderers dumped the body beside the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway.

 Quoting the deceased’s family members, he said, “He went out of his residence on Friday and talked to his wife over phone at 11:00pm. But, he remained missing since then.”