Police recovered the body of a man, who went missing on Friday evening, from a pond in Kalinath Rayer Bazaar area under Sadar upazila of Bhola district on Saturday night.

Deceased Md Rafiqul Islam, 40, was son of Md Humayun Kabir, a resident of Tinkhamba area of Ward No-5 under Bhola Municipality.

Md Wasim, the deceased’s brother, said Rafiqul went out from house on Friday evening and did not return home. On Saturtday night they came to know he found dead in the pond.

Md Julhas, another brother of the deceased, said Rafiqul was suffering from epilepsy for a long time.

Quoting locals, Bhola Sadar Police Station officer-in-charge Md Shaheen Fakir said locals saw the body was floating on the pond and informed police.

Being informed, police recovered the body and sent it to a hospital morgue for autopsy.