Three cousins drowned in a pond at Kalaiya union in Patuakhali's Baufal upazila yesterday afternoon. The bodies of the three girls were recovered from the pond at Karpurkathi village around 6:30pm yesterday, our Patuakhali correspondent reports, quoting Kalaiya Union Parishad Chairman SM Faisal Ahmed Monir Hossain Mollah. The deceased are Mahfuza Begum (15), Marium Begum (15)