Twin sisters drowned while taking bath in a pond at Goalanda Upazila Parishad premises in Rajbari district on Saturday. Swapan Kumar Majumdar, officer-in-charge of Goalanda Police Station, said the 12-year old girls -Tapur and Tupur, daughter of Abdul Goni, had been living with their maternal grandmother since their parents got divorced. Both the girls were students of class III of Moonstar Collegiate School in Goalanda upazila.  Anna Begum, grandmother of the two girls , used to work as a domestic help in a number of houses. READ: 2 kids drown in Chattogram pond On Saturday afternoon, Tapur and Tupur went to the pond  at Upazila Parishad Premises for taking bath and drowned there. As the girls were not returning home after a long period of time, Anna Begum went to the pond and found them floating in the pond. Later, they were taken to a local hospital where doctors declared them dead. READ: Barishal ferry tragedy: Three drown, one missing

The twin who survived after being forced to leave a private hospital returned home from Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Monday after recovering. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) made the necessary arrangements for the child’s treatment at DMCH and provided its family with financial support, said Major Zulkair Naen of RAB-3. He said, the incident was extremely inhumane that the twins were not given treatment, rather forced to leave the hospital because their parents couldn’t bear the expenses, and one of them even died. The surviving twin was then treated in DMCH on the instructions of RAB officials. READ: Conjoined twins die hours after birth in Jashore He also warned hospital authorities that if any patient is forced to leave hospital without proper treatment action would be taken against them. On January 7, twins- Abdullah and Ahmedullah were taken to Amader Bangladesh Hospital in city's Shyamoli as they became sick. Their parents couldn’t manage to pay the hospital bill so they were forced to leave the hospital. One of the twins, Ahmedullah died on the way to the DMCH. READ: Conjoined twins die 3 hrs after birth in Faridpur After various media covered the incident the owner of the hospital Golam Sarwar was arrested by RAB.