A minor girl was found dead in a septic tank at Ishwarchandrapur village in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga on Thursday afternoon a day after she went missing.

The deceased is Mukta, believed to be 3-year-old.

Damurhuda Model Police Station Officer-in-charge Abu Zihad Fakhrul Alam said Mukta went missing on Wednesday afternoon when she went out of the house for playing in a field adjacent to her house, reports UNB.

Locals spotted Mukta’s body in the septic tank of the house of Nasir Uddin and informed police.

Later, police recovered the body around 2:00pm and sent it to Chuadanga Sadar Hospital morgue.

Police detained Mukta’s father and Nasir Uddin for interrogation.