Five teenage students have drowned in a river in Bangladesh moments after playing a football match, police say.
孟加拉国警方称,在参加完足球比赛之后,该国五名少年在马塔穆胡里河中溺水身亡。
The boys, from a school in the south-eastern Cox's Bazar district, went to bathe after a friendly game between supporters of Argentina and Brazil.
这些男孩们来自科克斯东南部考扎斯区的一所学校,他们在参加了一场阿根廷和巴西的支持者之间进行的友谊赛后,一起去河里洗澡。
They were then swept away by the strong current of the Matamuhuri river.
之后,他们就被马塔穆胡里河湍急的水流冲走了。
Police recovered the bodies last Saturday evening, some six hours after the boys drowned. Tens of thousands of people attended their funeral.
上周六晚上,在这些男孩溺水六个小时之后,警方打捞到了尸体。共有数以万计的人参加了他们的葬礼。
Local police chief Bakhtiar Uddin Chowdhury said that 22 schoolboys played a friendly football match after dividing themselves between supporters of the two South American teams.
当地警察局局长巴赫蒂亚尔·乌丁·乔杜里称,当天共有22名男孩分别作为南美两支球队的支持者,进行了一场友谊赛。
He said that, following the game, six boys went to the river. The area near the Matamuhuri Bridge where they had chosen to swim was "very deep".
他表示,在比赛结束后,共有六个男孩去了河边。他们选择游泳的马塔穆胡里大桥附近的河水“非常深”。
"We rescued a boy. Later five bodies were recovered. The dead included two brothers," he told AFP news agency.
他向《法新社》透露:“我们下救了一个男孩。后来发现了五具尸体。死者中有一对兄弟。”