Two schoolgirls drown
Two schoolgirls drowned in a pond at Bangram village under Boda upazila in Panchagarh yesterday afternoon.
The victims are Siddika Begum, 10, daughter of Dasimuddin and a student of class V of Shikarpur Brac School, and her cousin Shimu Akhter, 9, daughter of Samiruddin and a student of Class IV of Manikpir Government Primary School.
The locals said Siddika and Shimu did not know how to swim and went to take a bath with some other children in a pond near their house around 2:00pm.
At one point, Siddika and Shimu went underwater but did not come up. Sensing danger, the other children began calling for help, they said.
Family members rushed to the pond and began searching for the girls. At one point they recovered the two and rushed them to Panchagarh sadar hospital where doctors declared them dead, they added.
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