Two siblings who went missing on their way to a mosque were found dead in a pond in Rangunia upazila of Chattogram on Friday night, reports UNB.
The deceased are Mohammad Hasan, 10, and Mohammad Hossain, 9, sons of Mohammad Shafi, a day labour in Chandraghona Khandaker Para under the upazila.
Chandraghona Kadamtoli union chairman Edris Azgarh said the two brothers went missing on their way to the mosque in their locality to offer Asr prayers in the afternoon.
When they did not return home around 9:30 pm, their parents informed the locals.
Local people and their parents launched a search operation and eventually fished out the bodies of the siblings from the pond in Chandraghona.
The siblings were rushed to Chandraghona Christian Mission Hospital, where doctors declared them dead on arrival, added Edris Azgarh.
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