Bangladesh teen repatriated after reaching Malaysia in shipping container dies by drowning

Ratul, who was mentally disabled, drowned around 2.30pm on Saturday, his father said

File: A security personnel walks in the premises of a Container Depot in Dhaka (AFP via Getty Images/ Image used for representational purpose only)

A teenager in Bangladesh who was found in a shipping container in Malaysia and repatriated back to Dhaka three months back ago died after drowning in a pond, his family said.

The 14-year-old boy Ratul Islam Fahim drowned to death while he was bathing alone in a pond in southern Bangladesh’s Monoharganj in Chittagong, his father Faruq Miah said, reported The Daily Star.

Ratul, who was mentally disabled, drowned around 2.30pm on Saturday, his father said.