
Chittagong University student Auritraya Hasan remained missing until Friday, four days after he along with two of his friends went missing while bathing in the sea near the Himchhari beach in Cox’s Bazar amid inclement weather.
The bodies of two others CU students have already been recovered.
Mohammad Salahuddin, deputy commissioner of Cox’s Bazar, told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· that they were giving their all-out efforts to find out the missing student, Auritraya.
He said that the coast guard, navy, fire service, district administration and local administration jointly continued search for the student.
The body of missing student Sadman Rahman Sabbab, son of KM Anisur Rahman of Pallabi at Mirpur in Dhaka, was recovered about an hour after the incident on July 8. On July 9 morning, the body of another student Asif Ahmed, son of Rafiqul Islam, a resident of the Bogura town, was recovered.
All three were students of the development studies department at the Chittagong University for the 2023-24 academic year.
On July 8 morning, five CU students, including the three, went to visit Cox’s Bazar, a tourist destination, and the three went to have a bath in rough sea although they did not know how to swim, according to district administration and police officials.