Two girls drowned in a pond at Shahbajpur Pingalhati village in Sadar upazila of Jamalpur on Monday.
The deceased were Shukriya, 7, daughter of Saddam Hossain and Atiya, 7, daughter of Ershad Hossain, of the Shahbajpur Pingalhati village, who were cousins.
They were class-one students of a local kindergarten madrasa.
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Md Ayub Ali Khan, chairman of Shahbajpur union parishad, quoting the victims’ families said that the children went down the pond to take baths in absence of others at noon.
Later, the bodies of the children were found floating in the pond, he said.
They were rushed to Jamalpur General Hospital where physicians declared them dead upon arrival, said the hospital’s medical officer Dr Soumitr Kumar Banik.
The UP chairman Ayub said police visited the spot and approved to bury them without autopsy upon the families’ request.
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