Two young sisters drowned while bathing in a pond in Mohanganj upazila of Netrokona district on Friday afternoon. The incident occurred in Pabai village under Barkashia-Birampur Union during a family wedding. The victims were Niha Akter, aged 7, and Noha Akter, aged 3, daughters of local hand trolley driver Nizam Uddin. They were the couple’s only children.

According to Mohanganj Police Station Officer-in-Charge Hafizul Islam Harun, the children’s mother was busy with wedding activities while their father was also engaged in related tasks. Taking advantage of the moment, the two sisters went to bathe in the pond near their house and drowned. Locals noticed one child floating and raised an alarm, after which both were rescued and taken to Mohanganj Upazila Health Complex, where doctors declared them dead.

Neighbor Mizanur Rahman said the deaths cast a shadow of grief over the family and the entire area.