In a tragic incident one three years old boy drowned in a pond near his house, when the other inmates of the family were busy with ‘Iftar’ at Nadilak village of Bishalgarh under Sepahijala district on Saturday.

Sources said that the deceased boy, identified as Mohammad Izan, was playing at the courtyard of the grand-mother house, when his mother and other family members were busy with Iftar during the month of Ramadan.

Mohammad Izan’s father Taffazal Hussain is working at Bangalore and his mother staying at his grand-mother house at Nadilak village, but on Saturday during his play time, Izan had gone to the pond near the house. After an hour of searching, family members found him floating in the pond.

Immediately, they shifted him to Bishalgarh hospital, where the visiting doctor declared him dead.