Three minor boys drowned in a pond at Hagurakuri village in Madhupur upazila of Tangail on Monday.
The deceased Sohan, 7, was son of Al Amin of Sholakuri Dakshinpara village under the upazila, and Akash, 5, and Nayeem, 4.5, were sons of Mosharraf Hossain and Harun of the Hagurakuri village.
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Of them, Sohan came to the house of his grandfather.
Farid Ali, chairman of Phulbagchala union parishad, said the children were alone playing by the newly dug pond around 5:20pm. They went down the pond to take baths and subsequently drowned.
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After a while, the body of one of the children was found floating in the pond, he said, adding that the rest were also retrieved from the water body later.
Madhupur Police Station’s Officer-in-charge Mazharul Amin confirmed the matter saying that an unnatural death case will be lodged in this connection.
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