3 drown in Munshiganj, Sherpur

DINAJPUR(South): Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman Fizar MP speaking at a reception accorded to meritorious students at Fulbari Upazila on Friday.
DINAJPUR(South): Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman Fizar MP speaking at a reception accorded to meritorious students at Fulbari Upazila on Friday.
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UNB, Sherpur :
In a pathetic incident, two sixth grader mates drowned in the Bhogai river in Tarakanda area of Nakla upazila on Thursday afternoon.
The deceased were identified as Omar Faruk, 12, son of Genda Mia and Akhter Miah, 12, son of Shanto Miah, residents of Goregaon Mahalla. Faruk was a class VI student of Nakla Pilot High School and Shanto was also in the same class of Muktijoddha Smrity Bidya Niketan School.
Khan Abdul Halim, officer-in-charge of Nakla Police Station, said Faruk and Shanto went to Tarakanda Rubber dam in the river around5pmto enjoy Eid vacation.
Later, they went to an island in the river for playing.
At one stage, Faruk, Shanto and another boy slipped into the river and went missing.
Hearing screaming of other boys, locals rushed there and rescued one.
After two and half hour of frantic efforts, locals recovered the bodies.
UNB from Munshiganj adds: A two-year-old boy drowned in a water body in Haldia union of Lauhajang upazila on Friday morning.
The deceased was identified as Ibrahim Matabbar, 02, son of Md Shaheen Matabbar of Satgharia village in the upazila.
The victim drowned in the water near their house while he was playing beside it, said the victim’s aunt Rashi Begum.
Later, the family members found the floating body.
They rushed the body to upazila health complex where the duty doctor declared him dead, she added.
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