Two sisters drowned in River Buriganga at Soarighat area in Old Town of Dhaka on Wednesday.
The deceased, Keya Akhter, 10, and Riya Akhter, 8, were daughters of Moslem Uddin Bepari of KM Azam Lane at Chalkbazar in the city.
Asiya Akhter, mother of the deceased, said that the girls with their friends went to bathe in the river at about 11:30am and drowned.
Later the family members and neighbours launched a search in the river to find them near the bank.
They were taken to Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital first and from there to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where the doctors declared them dead.
The bodies were handed over to the family without post-mortem, the police said.
Source : New Age
