3 minor boys drown

Three minor boys drowned in a pond at Mohadebpur village of Sadar upazila in Lakshmipur on Friday afternoon, reports UNB.

The deceased are Bayezid, 8, son of Maulana Khalilur Rahman, Md Ali, 6, son of Maulana Firoz Alam, and Yamin, 7, son of Jahangir Alam.

Sadar police station officer-in-charge Lokman Hossain said the three boys of 'Dhali Bari' of the village went to play on the bank of the pond near their houses.

They slipped into water around 3:30pm and met their watery burial, he said.