Student missing in Patenga sea beach

A college student went missing in the bay at Patenga sea beach in Chattogram on Tuesday, reports UNB.

The missing was identified as Asif Shahriar, son of Md Barekul Islam, resident of Dulahazra village in Chokoria upazila of Cox's Bazar district and class-XI student of Naval Forces School and College in Patenga.

Officer-in-charge of Patenga police station Abul Kashem Bhuiya said Asif along with his mate Nafis disappeared in the bay after they got down in the bay water skipping their college around 11:00pm.

Later, local photographers who were taking snaps of the bay saw them going down the water managed to rescue Nafis from the water body while Asif remained missing.

A team of divers of Chattogram firefighters and Naval forces has been conducting drive to rescue the missing, the OC added.