Two children drowned in a pond in the Kamarpara area of Fatikchhari upazila in Chittagong on Wednesday.
The deceased were identified as Meem Akter, 2, daughter of Nazrul, and her cousin Jannatul Nisa, 3, daughter of Faruk.
Locals said Meem and Nisa were playing near the pond adjacent to their house and slipped into it.
The mother of one of the children found them floating and took them to the hospital where doctors declared both of them dead, said Dr Nabil Chowdhury of Fatikchhari Upazila Health Complex.
