Two children drown

Two children drowned in a pond at village Khajanagr in Mirpur upazila in the district on Sunday. They are Sayem Ali, 5 son of Jamal Uddin and Nazmul Hossain, 6, son of Sultan Ali of the village. According to family sources, Sayem and Nazmul were playing by a pond near their house at about 5:30 pm. After a while they were not seen at the place. Their family members looked for them around the spot but failed to find them. Finally, they searched the pond and recovered the bodies of the children from it at about 7:30 pm.