Bhola, Oct. 24 -- year-old boy drowned in a pond in isolated island Monpura upazila of Bhola on Friday morning.

The deceased was identified as Md Anmad, son of Md Mosleuddin of Sikdarhat village in ward No-8 of Uttar Sakuchia union.

According to family members, the child was playing near the house and accidentally slipped into the adjacent pond unnoticed.

After a while, relatives found him floating in the water and rushed him to Monpura Upazila Health Complex.

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On the way, he was examined at Banglabazar Chamber where Upazila Health Complex physician Dr Kabir Sohel declared him dead.

Officer-in-charge Ahsan Kabir of Monpura Police Station said an unnatural death case was filed in this connection....