Twin sisters drown in Naogaon

Two minor girls drowned in a pond at Shuktigachha village in Naogaon’s Atrai upazila on Saturday evening.

The deceased were Halima and Habiba, two-year old twin daughters of Motahar Hossain of the village.

Md Moslem Uddin, officer-in-charge of Atrai police station, said the incident took place around 6:00pm when the toddlers were playing next to a nearby pond.

At one stage, they fell into the pond and went missing.

Locals eventually recovered their lifeless bodies from the pond.