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Four boys buried alive

22 November 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Sirajganj

Four children, including two siblings, were buried alive under a huge chunk of soil that fell upon them while playing by the Karotoa river in Shahajadpur upazila of Sirajganj on Saturday. The victims were identified as Yamin Ali, 10, and his brother Yasin Ali, 8, sons of Joynal Abedin, Arman Hossain, 8, son of Abul Kashem and Rafiqul Islam, 9, son of Mazam Ali in Narina Dakshinpara village of the upazila. Family sources said the children went there in the afternoon to play but did not return home. After a hectic search, their relatives found the bodies at riverbank.