Two schoolboys drowned in a pond while they were bathing in it at Bangshal in the old part of the capital yesterday afternoon.
The victims identified as Faisal Ahmed, 16, and Mohammad Shaon, 15, were class X students of Nababpur Government High School.
A team of divers from fire service recovered the bodies from the pond around 3:15pm yesterday.
The family members of the deceased took them to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the doctors pronounced them dead.