A total of four children drowned in a pond in Noakhali and Narsingdi district and on Sunday, reports UNB.
In Noakhali, two minor cousins drowned in a pond in Companiganj upazila of Noakhali district on Sunday.
The deceased were identified as Md Ibrahim, 4, son of Md Abu Sufiyan, and Nadim Hossain, 3, son of Md Sharif, both residents of the upazila.
Quoting local people, Bimol Karmokar, officer-in-charge of Companiganj Police Station, said the two children fell into a pond near their house in the afternoon while their family members were engaged with household chores.
Getting no whereabouts of the two children for long, their family members began searching for them and eventually recovered their bodies from the pond.
In Narsingdi, two children drowned in a roadside ditch in Munseferchar (Itakhola) area of Putia union under Shibpur upazila of the district on Sunday morning.
The deceased were identified as Alif Mia, 3, son of Shakil Mia and Mayamoni, 3, daughter of Sohel Mia, residents of Kathaltala area of the union.
The children, who lived in neighboring houses, went out to play in the rain around 11.30 am and suddenly fell into a roadside ditch filled with rain water and drowned, said Ershad Mia, member of Putia union parishad.
