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Two siblings drowned in a pond in Sarankhola upazila of Bagerhat on Friday, police said.
The deceased were identified as Ruby Akhtar,7, and Rafia Akhtar,4, daughters of Abdur Rahim Talukdar of Nalbunia village in the upazila, said M Ekram Hossain, officer-in-charge of Sarankhola police station.
The two kids went missing when they were taking bath in the pond, said the OC.
Read:Over 14,000 children die in Bangladesh due to drowning every year
Later their family members, along with local people, searched for them. Around 2:30 pm, they rescued the girls and took them to Upazila Health Complex where doctors pronounced them dead.
“Two cases of unnatural death have been filed in this regard,” said the officer.
According to WHO and UNICEF, each year, over 14,000 children in Bangladesh die due to drowning.
Although largely unrecognised, drowning is the second leading cause of death for children under the age of five in the country.