Minor drowns, another goes missing in Buriganga
A four-year-old girl drowned and her brother went missing after they fell into the Buriganga river from a pontoon at Sadarghat launch terminal of Dhaka this morning.
A fire service team recovered the body of Sumaiya but her brother, Sakib, 5, remained missing, Sadarghat River Police Sub-inspector Samsul Haque told The Daily Star.
Sumaiya and her brother fell into the water around 6:30am when they along with their family was waiting there for taking a launch to Barisal, the SI said.
The family were going to their village home in Barisal for celebrating Eid.
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