A man driving a tractor has died after the vehicle overturned and fell into the Padma River in Faridpur’s Charvadrasan Upazila while ploughing a paddy field.
The body of the driver was recovered from the banks of the Padma River in Balurghat village of Char Jhaukanda Union around 11am on Friday, said Charvadrasan Fire Service Station Officer Ohidul Islam.
The deceased, 20-year-old Joy Biswas, was a resident of Shahbazpur village in Shailkupa Upazila of Jhenaidah.
Locals said that for the last two days, Joy had been ploughing the farming land owned by Mohammad Ali using a tractor.
On early Friday, he was running the tractor around 1am in the farming land at the bank of Padma River.
