2 children drown in Nilphamari
Two girl students of a primary school drowned in a pond while going to their school at Babupara Khutamara village in Jaldhaka upazila of the district yesterday.
The victims are Prapti Rani, 5, daughter of Gonesh Chandra Roy, and Bobita Rani, 5, daughter of Bijen Chandra Roy, of the village.
The girls were Class 1 students at a government primary high school and also neighbours.
The girls' family members said the victims were going to their school, only 400 metres from their homes, when they stopped beside a pond and tried to pick up something from the water.
One of them suddenly slipped into water and the other girl tried to rescue her, but both of them drowned, they added.
People working in the surrounding Aman paddy fields rushed to the spot and recovered the unconscious victims after half an hour.
They were immediately taken to Jaldhaka Upazila Health Complex, but the doctors on duty said they had died at least one hour before being brought to the hospital.
A pall of gloom engulfed the entire area at the sudden death of the two children.
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