A woman, who was an epileptic patient, and a minor boy drowned in Patiya and Boalkhali upazilas of Chattogram respectively on Monday.
The deceased were Ruma Dey, 45, wife of Sharat Dey of Suchakradandi area under ward No.2 of Patiya municipality and two-year-old Md Taisirul, son of Md Tarke of Paschim Gomandi Bahaddarhapara under ward No.9 of Boalkhali municipality.
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According to the family, Ruma went to the pond to take a bath around 7am but didn’t return for a long time.
As she was not found, a local team of Fire Service and Civil Defence (FSCD) department accompanied by a diver team from the city recovered her body from the pond around 9am, said Patiya Fire Service’s station master Saiful Islam.
On the other hand, family members found Taisirul’s floating body in a pond around an hour after it went missing.
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Later, the child was rushed to Upazila Health Complex where it was declared dead upon arrival, said the hospital’s emergency department physician Dr Sudip Kumar Chowdhury.
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