A 14-year-old student drowned while bathing in a pond at Rajarbagh Police Lines in the capital on Saturday afternoon.
The deceased was Sakibul Hasan, an eighth-grade student of Rajarbagh Police Lines School and College and son of Abdul Karim of Nai Gari Gari area under Shahjahanpur thana in Bogura district.
Sakibul was rescued unconscious around 2 pm and taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) emergency department where the duty doctors declared him dead, said his father Abdul Karim.
He drowned in the pond while bathing with friends, he added.
Dhaka Medical College Hospital police camp in-charge Inspector Md. Faruk said the body has been kept in the hospital morgue.