Schoolboy, shop employee murdered in city
Police identified the victim as Elahi Ashraf Robin, 28, a staff of Ayesha Shopping Complex at Malibagh.
Elahi went missing when he was returning to his house at Bhanga Press area in Demra from his workplace.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Demra police retrieved the body from Janapad Road in Demra at around 1:00am.
Meanwhile, Lalbagh police recovered the body of a schoolboy from Buriganga river yesterday.
He was identified as Mohammad Hasan Saad,12, a class VI student of Oxford International School.
He went out of his house at Rahmatganj at around 5:00pm to play football with his friends.
As he did not return on Sunday night, Saad's father Haji Abdul Jabbar filed a general diary with Lalbagh Police Station the same night.
Locals informed the police after they found the body floating in the river.
No mark of injury was found on his body.
A UD case was filed in this connection.
"If the family suspect that Saad has been murdered in a planned way, we will turn the UD case into a murder case," said the duty officer of Lalbagh Police Station.