Two minor sisters drowned in a pond while playing on the bank of the water body in Nabinagar upazila of Brahmanbaria on Saturday.
Raisa Moni, 5, and her younger sister Maisa Moni, 4, were daughters of expatriate Saiful Islam of Barikhola village under Laour Fatehpur union of the upazila.
Locals and family said the sisters were seen playing with a ball on the bank of the pond around 11:30am. After a while they were found missing.
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Later, the bodies of the children were spotted floating in the pond and taken to Upazila Health Complex where physicians declared them dead upon arrival.
Ismat Ara Jahan, member of the union parishad, confirmed the fatal death of the sisters saying that the babies fell into the pond from the bank while playing.
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