A 12-year old girl has died by drowning in water as the boat sank in the river in Baniyachang in Habiganj Saturday noon while they were going on a picnic.
The deceased Mukta Akter is the daugter of Moinuddin of village Matikata under the same upazila.
Locals said she boarded on a picnic boat from Kumri under the upazila along with other people.
On the way the boat capsised.
While the others could manage to get to land by swimming across, Mukta couldn't.
Hours later the locals rescued her body, which floating on water and rushed her to Habiganj Sadar Hospital where the doctors declared her dead.
Mukta was a class-5 student in a local school.
Resident Medical Officer at Habiganj Sadar Hospital, Mohsin Ahmed, said she was already dead when she was brought to the hospital.
Her death appears to have occured while she was in the water, he added.