<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Two minor cousins drowned in a pond while playing at Algadiya village in Nagarkanda upazila of Faridpur on Wednesday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased were Abu Bakkar, 5, son of Md Jafar Sheikh and Nahida Akter, 4, daughter of Shahfiqul Islam, of Algadiya village under Charjoshordi union of the upazila.</div><div><br></div><div>Locals said the two children might have drowned while playing near a pond at noon.</div><div><br></div><div>At one stage of search, the children were found floating in the pond and rushed to Upazila Health Complex where physicians declared them dead.</div><div><br></div><div>Kamruzzama Saheb Fakir, chairman of the union parishad, confirmed the death of the children. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>