A 12-year-old schoolboy drowned in a pond in the capital's Bangshal area on Saturday.
Isan Nandi was son of one Satyajit Nandi in Shankhari Bazar area under Kotwali police station. Isan was a student of class seven of Pogose Laboratory School and College.
Vijay Nandi, cousin of the deceased, said Isan along with some boys of the area went to take a bath in the Bangshal pond and drowned.
Locals found him and took him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the doctors declared him dead around 5:45 pm.
The dead body has been kept in the hospital morgue for post-mortem, said Md. Bachchu Mia, inspector in charge of DMCH police outpost.