Barishal, May 8 -- The body of a Barishal University (BU) official was retrieved from a canal adjacent to the campus on Thursday afternoon, said police.

The deceased was identified as Nur Islam, deputy director of the Office of the Director of Physical Education of the university.

He lived with his wife and children in an area by the campus and cultivated crops on his leased lands on the banks of the canal.

Quoting the family, police said he went out of the house to operate a swallow machine set up on the bank of canal to water the cultivated Boro paddy at noon.

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