At least four children drowned while playing near water bodies in Kishoreganj and Bhola districts on Friday.
United News of Bangladesh reported that three children drowned while playing near a bil in Austagram upazila of Kishoreganj in the evening.
The incident occurred at Paschim Alinagar village under Deoghar Union.
The deceased are Mishkat, 5, son of Abul Kalam; Mahin, 6, son of Masuk Mia and Tanil, 5, son of Sattar Mia 鈥� all from the same neighbourhood.
According to locals and family members, the trio is playing in front of their homes in the afternoon when they accidentally fell into the nearby water body.
When they went missing for a long time, family members began searching for them and later found Mishkat and Mahin unconscious in the bil. They were rushed to Austagram upazila health complex, where doctors declared them dead on arrival.
At around 7:00pm, firefighters recovered the body of Tanil from the same bil.
Mahin鈥檚 uncle, Mobarak Hossain, said that the children were playing as usual, but no one noticed when they fell into the water.
鈥楢fter searching for a long time, we found two of them first, and later the other one,鈥� he said.
Confirming the incident, Deoghar Union Parishad chairman Md Akhtar Hossain said that the deaths of three children from the same neighbourhood had left the entire area in mourning.
Austagram police station officer-in-charge Ruhul Amin also confirmed the incident.
Meanwhile, a two-year-old boy drowned in a pond in isolated island Monpura upazila of Bhola in the morning, said another UNB report.
The deceased is Md Anmad, son of Md Mosleuddin of Sikdarhat village in ward no-8 of Uttar Sakuchia union.
According to family members, the child was playing near the house and accidentally slipped into the adjacent pond unnoticed.
After a while, relatives found him floating in the water and rushed him to Monpura upazila health complex.
On the way, he was examined at Banglabazar Chamber where upazila health complex physician Kabir Sohel declared him dead.
Monpura police station OC Ahsan Kabir said that an unnatural death case was filed in that connection.
