Dhaka- It is a pattern that repeats itself with uncanny precision. Children, usually minors, left unattended. Afternoons tend to be particularly bad, with perhaps one parent away at work while the other one ventures to rest. And the tell-tale pond adjoining their home, probably the most ubiquitous sight of all across the over 85,000 villages that make up rural Bangladeshl; Four girls from the same family have been found a family drowned in a pond in Bablatala area in Gurudaspur upazila in Natore on Saturday night.Locals said Rabbani, 4, and her sister Meghla, 8, children of Mintu Hossain of Bablatala, along with Ratri, 9, and her sister Sondha, 7, daughters of Shimul Hossain, brother of Mintu, went missing in the afternoon.Family members eventually, well after came across one of their bodies floating on the surface of the pond, which is adjacent to their own dwelling floating on a pond adjacent to their house after a frantic search around 8pm and later, recovered the bodies of three others from there with the help of locals.A pall of gloom descended over the area following the incident.UNB news agency
