Yousuf Ali (19) and Samirul Islam Samrat(18), both students of a college, remained missing and supposed to be drowned while attempting to recover a football from the water of the river Padma at Daulatpur under Kushtia district on Thursday noon.
Missing Yousuf is son of Babul Kabiraj and Samrat is son of Kumir Uddin of village Kabirajpara. They were both higher-secondary level students at Philipnagar Maricha Degree College.
Eyewitness sources said, Yousuf, Samrat and some other friends were playing football at the charland of the river Padma when the football fell into the river adjacent of Abederghat under Philipnagar union around 1-00 pm Thursday.
During the time, Yousuf and Samrat jumped into the river to recover the football but they were drowned in the turbulent current of the river. Local people tried to rescue the drowned duos with boats but failed to trace them.
Till to the writing of the report at 5-00 pm, a Fire Service team from Bheramara Fire Service was trying to rescue the missing students.
Fazlul Haque Kabiraj, Chairman of Philipnagar UP informed Yousuf and Samrat were missing in the river Padma and Fire Service team was trying to rescue them.
