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Speech-impaired young woman's body recovered from canal in Jhalokati

Friday, 13 November 2026, 7:35

Speech-impaired young woman's body recovered from canal in Jhalokati

The body of a 26-year-old speech-impaired young woman named Poly Akter Tinni was recovered from a canal in front of her house in Rajapur, Jhalokati. Locals recovered the body on Thursday afternoon from the Dhorshankar area of the upazila. Tinni was the daughter of Delowar Hossain Gazi, a resident of Ward No. 7 in Dhorshankar village, and she suffered from epilepsy in addition to being speech-impaired.

According to police and local sources, Tinni went to the canal in front of her house for household water on Thursday afternoon. When she did not return home for a long time, family members and neighbors started searching and eventually found her floating in the canal. She was later taken to Rajapur Upazila Health Complex, where the emergency department doctor declared her dead, and police recovered the body from the health complex in the evening. Rajapur police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Sujan Biswas stated that to know the exact cause of death, the body would be sent to the Jhalokati morgue for autopsy on Friday morning, and legal steps are underway regarding the incident.

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