Dhaka, Sept. 27 -- Four people including twin siblings drowned in Munshiganj and Chapainawabganj districts on Sunday.

In Munshiganj, eight-year-old twin siblings drowned in a pond near their maternal grandparents' home in Sirajdikhan upazila.

The deceased were Tanisha and Raihan, children of Sharif Miah, a Kuwait expatriate. Their family resides in the Demra area of Dhaka.

Their maternal grandfather, Kashem Miah, said the children had arrived at his home in Chashimuddin village on Saturday.

At around 1:30pm on Sunday, the siblings went to play near a pond close to the house.

At one point, one of them fell into the pond. The other tried to save the sibling, but both eventually drowned.

Locals later rescued the children and took them ...