One-year-old drowns in bathroom bucket

A one-year-old child drowned in a bucket of water after crawling in while her parents were having lunch in Dhaka's Kamrangirchar.

The deceased, Fatima, learned to crawl just a few months back and managed to get into the bathroom without her parents noticing.

Her parents—Sumon Hossain and Shubarna Akter—noticed the body just minutes after the child crawled in. They rushed Fatima to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where duty doctors declared her dead.

Hailing from Shariatpur, the couple has another daughter.

Children aged between eight and 18 months are often the victims of such incidents if left out of sight, experts say.

Always shutting the bathroom door, emptying or covering buckets and tubs are key measures to prevent such deaths of infants, they said.