2 schoolboys drown in water body in city
Two schoolboys drowned in a jheel (lake) at Palashnagar in Pallabi in the city yesterday.
The dead were identified as Mohammad Suman, 8, and Momin, 10. Both the children were students of a school in Sabuj Bangla colony in Mirpur-11. Details about them could not be known immediately.
Fire brigade sources said Suman and Momin drowned after they along with their friend Mamun went to take a bath in the lake at around 11:00am. Mamun, however, managed to swim ashore.
Receiving information from Mamun, local people tried to rescue the boys, but to no avail. Later, they informed the fire brigade at 12:35pm. A team of four divers recovered the bodies after struggling for about one hour.
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