Shawdesh Desk:

Two children drowned in a pond at Kamar Para in Fatikchhari upazila of Chattogram district on Wednesday.

The deceased were identified as Meem Akter, 2, daughter of Nazrul and and her cousin Jannatul Nisa, 3, daughter of Faruk.

Local people said Meem and Nisa were playing near a pond adjacent to their house and slipped into the pond.

The mother of one of the children found them floating and took them to a local hospital where doctors declared both dead, said Dr Nabil Chowdhury of Fatikchhari Upazila Health Complex.