, Sept. 2 -- year-old Mostakim Hossain drowned in the Padma River his family had little choice but to wait.

Local rescuers searched for the madrasa student after he went missing while playing football with friends at Bhagjot Ghat in Kushtia's Daulatpur upazila on August 28.

But the district had no trained fire service divers of its own.

Instead, the family had to wait for a specialist team to travel nearly 150km from Khulna.

By the time the divers arrived several hours passed. Mostakim's body was eventually recovered from the river the following morning.

For his mother, Sheuli Khatun, the wait was agonising.

"My son drowned while playing with his friends on a holiday. We still could not find him. We had to wait for people to come fr...