Two brothers drowned in a pond at Maniknagar in the city's Jatrabari area on Thursday, leaving their parents and relatives shellshocked

Locals yesterday morning retrieved the bodies of 11 -year-old Sayeed Hossain Shaon and 10 year-old Saif Hossain Shovon horn the pond. Both were doss III students of Motijhecl Ideal School and College.

Family members said the two brothers returned home at Golapbagh from school at 12:00 noon on Thursday. After playing for sometime, they went to a neighbour's house along with their grandmother to attend a milad. They left the house telling their grandmother that they were going around.

As they did not return home in the afternoon, their father Tofazzol I Inssain Bhanu filed a general diary Hossain Bhanu filed a general diary with Jatrabari Police Station and announced the missing news of his two sons over loudspeakers.

Labourers found a floating body in the pond at Maniknagar yesterday morning and informed the matter to locals. The locals recovered the body and announced it over the loudspeaker of a mosque.

Hearing the news, Tofazzel rushed to the scene and identified the body of his eldest son Shaon. Later, locals pumped out the water of the pond and recovered the body of Shovon.

It was learnt that on Thursday noon Shaon and Shovon told one of their cousins, Mitul, of their age, that they would not go for playing with others as they made a plan to go somewhere else.

Tofazzel and his wife have another son named Badhan who is a student of a local kindergarten school.