Student drowns in DU pond

A student of Dhaka University drowned in a pond at Fazlul Haque Hall of the university this afternoon.

Mahfuzul Islam Rahi, a second-year-student of physics department of the university, slipped from the stairs of the pond and sank, DU Proctor AM Amzad told The Daily Star.

Rahi’s friends searched for him in the pond but for no avail.

Around half an hour later, divers from fire service found Rahi and rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said Enayet Hossain, officer-in-charge of Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters.

Doctors declared him brought dead, he added.