Two Children Drown in Pond in Separate Incidents in Nalitabari, Sherpur

PNN News Desk. Sherpur

Two children have died after drowning in pond water in Nalitabari, Sherpur. On the same night, police recovered the bodies of two more women from two separate locations in the upazila. A mournful environment has been created in the area due to these four simultaneous incidents. On late Sunday (August 23) night around 2:30 AM, locals recovered the bodies of two children from a pond in Madhya Nakshi village of Kalaspur Union under the upazila.

The two deceased children are Rohan (7), son of Hazrat Ali of Madhya Nakshi village, and Ismail (6), son of Ebadul Islam of the same village. According to locals, Rohan and Ismail went missing after leaving home around noon on Sunday. Family members searched for them in various potential places but could not find them. Later, late at night, a few locals saw the bodies of the two children floating in the pond and recovered them. Meanwhile, the bodies of two more women were recovered in separate incidents in the same upazila. Among them are Kamrun Nahar Shakila (15), daughter of Kamrul Islam of Tantor village, and Nur Jahan Begum (65), wife of Abdus Sattar of Nayabil village. However, the cause of death of those two women could not be known immediately.

After recovering their bodies, the police initiated legal procedures regarding the matter. Nalitabari Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Ashrauzzaman stated that the bodies of the two children recovered from the pond have been handed over to their families. Necessary legal proceedings are ongoing at the police station regarding the recovery of the bodies of the other two women.