OUR CORRESPONDENT, Netrokona

Two children drowned in a pond in Netrokona’s Kendua upazila yesterday noon.

The deceased are Sadaat Mia, 7, of Borkalian village, and Tasfia Akter, 6, of Shibpur village in the union, said Kendua Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mizanur Rahman.

Police and family members said several children were playing by the pond in front of the house of late Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan, in Borkalian village under Gonda union, when Sadaat and Tasfia slipped and fell into the pond.

Family members and neighbours rushed to the pond and pulled them out. They were taken to Kendua Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared them dead upon arrival.