Two minor children drowned in the Kaliganga River in Gilond area of Manikganj Sadar upazila on Saturday morning.
The deceased are three-year-old Md Junaid Mondal, son of Azgar Ali Mondal, and two-and-a-half-year-old Md Jamil Mondal, son of Akbar Ali Mondal. The boys were cousins.
Officer-in-charge Kamal Hossain of Manikganj Sadar Police Station said that the duo was playing in an open field near their home around 10:30 when they went missing after falling into the river.
As they were missing, family members began searching for them and later locals found the children floating in the river, he said.
They were taken to a private medical college hospital where doctors declared them dead, the OC added.