One more child died from hornet stings in Dhobaura upazila of Mymensingh Saturday night, taking the death toll from it to three.
The child is Sifat Ullah, 5, son of late Abul Kashem, 55, an imam of Dudhnoi Bazar Mosque in the upazila.
On Sunday afternoon, the imam and his eight-year-old daughter Labiba also died from the hornet stings.
Family members and locals said that a boat, carrying Abul Kashem and his two children, was passing by a bamboo bush Saturday afternoon on their way to a local market. Suddenly they were invaded by hornets, leaving them critically injured.
Locals rushed them to Dhobaura upazila health complex, from where doctors referred them to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.
Abul Kashem and Labiba died to their injuries on the way to the hospital. Sifat died at about 10:00pm while undergoing treatment there.
Dhobaura police station鈥檚 officer-in-charge Al Mamun Sarkar confirmed the deaths.
