Girl drowns in pond

A four-year old girl drowned in a pond beside Uttara EPZ at Sangolshi village in Sadar upazila yesterday morning. Victim Kebi Rani was daughter of Kanok Chandra Roy of Boro Vita village in Kishoreganj upazila. Locals and family sources said, the parents of the victim, both factory workers, went to their workplace leaving their only daughter at the rented house to play with a child of the landlord. At one stage Kebi Rani saw a red water lily in a nearby pond. She got down in the pond to pluck the lily and drowned.