Three kids drown
Three children, including two siblings, died in separate incidents of drowning in Patuakhali and Jashore yesterday and on Friday, report our correspondents.
Two minor brothers drowned in a pond at Bilbilas village in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila around 11:00am yesterday.
The deceased, Abdullah, 5, and his young brother Yasin, 3, were sons of Saddam Hossain of the village.
Quoting the victims’ family members, Officer in Charge of Baufal Police Station Mostafizur Rahman said both the kids went out their house around 9:00am for playing and went missing.
After a frantic search, family members and locals rescued their bodies from a pond nearby their house and informed the police, the OC said.
Away in Jashore, a two year-old-boy drowned at Rajganj Dighirpar village in Monirampur upazila on Friday.
The deceased was identified as Tahsin, son of Mahbub Gazi of the village.
Police quoted deceased’s family members as saying that the kid accidentally fell into a pond near his house while playing on its bank and drowned.
Later, villagers spotted Tahsin’s floating body in the pond and rescued it, Officer in Charge of Monirampur Police Station Rafiqul Islam said.
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