Two college students died apparently after returning from a Durga Puja festival in Faridpur town early Saturday.
The deceased are Puja Biswas, 20, daughter of Sadhan Biswas from Debila village in Shalikha upazila of Magura and first year student of a college and Ratna Saha, 26, daughter of Ratan Kumar Saha from Amgram in Boalmari upazila of Faridpur and a student at Government Rajendra College.
According to the victims鈥� families and hospital sources, the two students used to live in a rented house in Kanai Matbar Mor area at Alipur in Faridpur town.
After returning from the Durga Puja festival on Friday evening, they fell sick.
Bithi Saha, another tenant of the house, said that as their condition worsened, they were rushed to Faridpur Medical College Hospital around midnight.
Hospital sources said that one of them was brought dead to the hospital while the other passed away at about 4:00am while undergoing treatment.
Kotwali police station officer-in-charge Asaduzzaman said that the bodies were kept to Faridpur Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
The exact cause of their death would be revealed after the autopsy, he added.
