BARISAL, Jun 8 (UNB): Two children drowned in a pond at Fullashri village in Agoiljhara upazila of the district on Saturday morning.
The deceased were identified as Poly, 7, daughter of Siraj Molla and Mim, 8, daughter of Shahjahan Talukdar of the village.
Sajjad Hossain, Agoiljhara police station officer-in-charge, said the girls slipped into the pond and drowned while playing at the courtyard of their house.
Family members rescued the girls and took them to upazila health complex where doctors declared them dead.
Our Chuadanga Correspondent reports: A 9-year old minor boy drowned in a pond in village Baka Astolapara under Jibannagar Upazila of the district Saturday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Yasin Arafat (09), son of Kalu Mia and a resident of village Baka Astolapara under Jibannagar Upazila.
Victim's family members and local sources said Yasin Arafat and his playmates were playing on the bank of a pond nearby his house in the afternoon yesterday. All on a sudden, he slipped into the pond and drowned as he did not know how to swim. Locals searched him in the pond and rescued him in a critical condition and rushed him to Jibannagar Health Complex where the on-duty doctor pronounced him dead. A pall of gloom descended on the whole village after the tragic death.
3 kids drown in districts
FE Team | Published: June 09, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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