Police recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified teenager from capital Dhaka’s Dhanmondi Lake on Tuesday morning.
Being informed by locals, police recovered the half-molten floating body of the boy, aged about 13, from lake water adjacent to Dhanmondi 4 no road at about 10:00am and sent it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue, said Md Parvez Islam, Inspector (Investigation) of Dhanmondi Police Station.
The boy, wearing trousers and t-shirt, might have been dumped in the lake 3-4 days ago, the inspector added.
However, the cause of his death is yet to be known; according to a news agency.