A five-year-old child drowned in a pond at Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur on Saturday.
Raiyan Islam Rasim was son of Khademul Islam of Krishnanagar Munshipara under the upazila but he was brought up at his maternal father’s house at Hariharpur village of the same upazila.
Nur Alam Babu, sub-inspector of Chirirbandar Police Station, quoting relatives of the child, said Rasim suddenly fell into a pond when his maternal uncle was catching fish in the water body in the morning.
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Though the uncle did not know of Rasim falling into the pond, after a while he spotted his body in the pond, he said.
The child was rushed to Chirirbandar Health Complex where physicians declared him dead, the SI said.
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The body was handed over to the relatives without autopsy upon their request, he said, adding that an unnatural death case was lodged in this connection.
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