Boy drowns in Panchagarh

An eight-year-old boy drowned in a pond at Jagdal Bazar under Sadar upazila yesterday. The boy was identified as Shishir, son of Nur-un-Nabi, a bank staff of the same area. Witnesses said the boy was playing around his house. Somehow he fell in the pond beside his house and drowned as he didn't know how to swim. Later his body was found floating in the pond. Locals rushed him to Panchagarh Sadar Hospital where the on-duty doctors declared him dead.