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Sister, brother drown

29 June 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

A Correspondent, Lalmonirhat

A young girl and her younger brother were drowned in the Dharla River at Mirzar Court village of Patgram upazila on Sunday. Bubli Akhter,9, and Shafi Ahmed,7, were children of Babul Hossain of the village. Witnesses and police said when Shafi fell in the river, Bubli jumped into water to save her brother. Locals tried for two hours to locate their bodies but failed. Later, professional divers recovered their bodies at around 6 am yesterday.