2 minor girls drown

Two minor girls drowned in a pond adjacent to their house at Atchail village in Chandina upazila yesterday. The deceased were identified as Sathi, 2, daughter of Oman expatriate Shahadat Hossain and Mim Akhter, 4, daughter of Ismail Hossain of the village. Locals said the two girls slipped into the pond while playing near it in the morning. The bodies of the two children were recovered later.