Seven children, including a pair of twins drowned in four districts between

Thursday and yesterday.

Six-year-old twin brothers Borhan and Raihan, sons of a farmer named Mahbubul Haq in Chandanaish upazila, drowned in a pond of

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Chittagong around yesterday noon.

Borhan fell into the pond adjoining their home at Dakshin Hashimpur village while playing with his brother Raihan and a boy next-door around 2:00pm.

Raihan jumped into the water to save his brother, said family members.

Being informed by their playmate, their parents and locals rushed them to the Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) where the doctor declared them dead, said Regun Barua, constable of CMCH police outpost.

In Jessore, Ankhi, 4, daughter of Akbar Hossain, and Apon, 5, son of Shariful Islam, drowned in a pond yesterday around 10:30am.

The two cousins were seen playing around a pond near their home at Ashingari village of Monirampur upazila around 10:00am.

Half an hour later, family members and locals found their bodies floating in the pond, said family sources.

Our Sirajganj correspondent reports Ankhi Khatun, 3, the only daughter of Alam Sheikh, drowned in Saluavita village in Sirajganj onThursday morning.

Family sources said she went outside her home in the morning and was found floating in a nearby ditch around 12:30pm.

When family members took the body to a private hospital in Sirajganj, doctors declared her death.

Two kids in Islampur upazila of Jamalpur drowned in flood water on Thursday morning.

Shukur Ali alias Rubel, 3, sonof Intaz Ali and two and a half years old Rina, daughter of Kitab Ali, of Charputimai union were cousins.

While playing, they drowned around 10:00am in the flood water surrounding their house.

After searching the missing children for hours, family members recovered the bodies from the flood water, said UP member Yusuf Ali quoting victims' family.