A five-and-a-half-year-old boy has been brutally murdered in Dirai upazila of Sunamganj on Sunday night.

The miscreants hanged him with a rope on a tree after he was slaughtered.

In addition to the stabbing in the abdomen of the child, two ears and his personal part were cut off.

The ill-fated child's name is Tuhin Mia, son of Abdul Basir, a farmer by profession.

On information, police recovered the body of the child on Monday morning, said Dirai Police Station SI Abu Taher Mollah.