Two siblings drown

Two siblings drowned in a pond in Sharsha upazila of Jashore district on Friday morning.

The deceased are Rezwan, 7, and his sister Maria, 6, son and daughter of a certain Kamarul Islam of Sikarpur village in the upazila reports UNB.

Gorpara police camp sub-inspector Sheikh Lutfar Rahman said the two went to a local pond for taking bath in the morning and drowned.

Locals spotted the bodies floating on the water and recovered them, he added.

After taking those to the Upazila Health Complex, the on-duty doctors declared them dead.