Minor girl drowns after falling off bamboo bridge
Monday, 22 October 2018
CHANDPUR, Oct 21 (UNB): A school girl drowned in a canal after falling from a bamboo bridge at Moishadi village in Sadar upazila on Saturday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Aklima Akter, 6, daughter of Ziauddin Miji and a class one student of Mirzapur Government Primary School.
Locals say Aklima slipped and fell into the canal unnoticed while crossing the bridge to go to a shop to buy biscuits.
Later, they spotted the floating body and took her to Chandpur General Hospital where duty doctor Dr Asibul Hasan declared her dead.