Three children drown in Chandpur

Drowning. Image source- Social Media

CHANDPUR, Sept 15 — Three children drowned in separate incidents in Faridganj and Hajiganj upazilas of Chandpur on Tuesday.

In Faridganj, A Rahman, 3-year old son of school teacher Abdul Kader of Sokdirampur village, drowned in a pond beside his father’s school while playing around 10am.

While his father was taking a class, the child was playing on the school veranda, as he usually did.

At one point, he apparently went unnoticed and fell into the pond.

Locals rescued the child and rushed him to the upazila government hospital, where an on-duty doctor declared him dead.

His mother, Ayesha Begum, died of cancer three months ago.

Meanwhile, in Hajiganj, five-year-old Samad, son of Mamun Molla, drowned in a pond at Molla Bari in the Aliganj area around 8am.

Later in the afternoon, two-and-a-half-year-old Mozahid, son of Habib Molla, drowned after falling into a pond while playing at Molla Bari in Madhya Sanna under Bakila Union of the same upazila.

Samad and Mozahid were taken to nearby upazila health complexes where on-duty doctors declared them dead.

Hajiganj Police Station Officer-in-Charge A Mannan said the bodies were handed over to the families.

According to Unicef, drowning stands as one of the leading causes of death among children under five in the country.

Some 14,000 young lives are lost each year—many during the monsoon, when the landscape becomes a dangerous playground.

Every day, an average of 40 children drown—lives with potential, laughter, and love—all extinguished in moments that could have been averted. - UNB