Journalist’s 16-Year-Old Son Goes Missing in Chitalmari

Printed On: Oct 17, 2026 || Published On: Oct 17, 2026

Journalist’s 16-Year-Old Son Goes Missing in Chitalmari

Bagerhat District Correspondent:

A 16-year-old schoolboy, Pritom Mondal, has gone missing after leaving home to attend private tutoring in Chitalmari upazila of Bagerhat district on Thursday afternoon (October 15). He left home at around 4:00 pm, but his whereabouts remained unknown at the time of filing this report.

Pritom is a ninth-grade student at Chitalmari Government S. M. Model High School and the only son of journalist Prince Mondal Olif.

His father filed a general diary (GD No. 832) with Chitalmari Police Station over the disappearance.

Family members said Pritom left home to attend private tutoring but did not return. Relatives searched several places but could not find him. The family has appealed to the public for assistance in locating him.

At the time of his disappearance, Pritom was wearing a white, long-sleeved checked shirt, black trousers and black sandals. He has a black mole on the right side of his face, just below his nose, and was wearing a tulsi bead necklace.

Anyone with information about Pritom’s whereabouts is requested to contact his father at 01711977369.

Chitalmari Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) J. M. Masum said on Friday afternoon (October 16) that a general diary had been filed and police efforts to locate the missing student were ongoing.