5 children drown in Pabna, Patuakhali

Five children died after drowning in Pabna and Patuakhali yesterday.

In Pabna, three children drowned in a pond in Ishwardi upazila.

Jahid Hossain, 10, son of Bachhu Mandal, Hridoy Hossain, 10, son of Pangjhu Promanik, and Anika Khatun, 11, daughter of Akijal Hossain, were residents of Sara Gopalpur village.

Their bodies were recovered and rushed to Ishwardi Upazila Health Complex where physicians declared them dead, said Aurbinda Sarkar, officer-in-charge of Ishwardi police station.

In Patuakhali, two more children drowned in a canal in Mirzaganj upazila.

Sudipto Chandra Mistry, 7, son of Subir Chandra Mistry, and Brishti Rani, 9, daughter of Rakhal Chandra Mistry, are cousins, said local UP member Sohrab Hossain. "Neither of them knew how to swim."

Just the day before, three children of a family drowned in a pond in Kalapara upazila.

[Our district correspondents contributed to this report]