Twin sisters drown

Two siblings drowned in a pond in the Sudharam Model Police Station compound in Sadar upazila yesterday.

The victims are 6-year-old twins Munia and Sadia, daughters of constable Md Zakaria. He is serving at Sudharam Model Police Station. He is a resident of Sarail under Brammanbaria district.

Mosharaf Hossain Tarafder, officer in-charge of the PS, said Zakaria resided at a government quarter near the police station. Munia and Sadia went to the pond for a dip around 1:30pm in absence of their mother.

After half an hour when their mother called them to take meal, she did not found them anywhere. At one stage of search, locals found the bodies floating in the water.