Chandpur, Sept. 16 -- 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 A...