Four children, including two minor cousins, drowned in separate incidents in Narsingdi and Noakhali on Sunday.
In Narsingdi, two children drowned in a water body in Munshefer Char area of Shibpur upazila of the district in the morning.
The deceased are Alif Mia, 3, son of Shakil Mia and Mayamoni, 3, daughter of Sohel Mia of Putia union.
Quoting local people, Afzal Hossain, officer-in-charge of Shibpur model police station, said that Alif and Mayamoni fell into a water body while playing near it during rain at around 11:00am and drowned there.
Later, local people recovered the bodies of the two children from the water body.
In Noakhali, two minor cousins drowned in a pond in Companiganj upazila of the district in the afternoon.
The deceased are Md Ibrahim, 4, son of Md Abu Sufiyan, and Nadim Hossain, 3, son of Md Sharif, both residents of the upazila.
Quoting local people, Companiganj police station OC Bimol Karmokar said that the children fell into a pond near their house while their family members were engaged with household chores.
Getting no whereabouts of the children for long, their family members began searching for them and eventually found them unconscious at the pond.
They were rushed to Companiganj upazila health complex, where doctors declared them dead.
