Mubashir Bhat
Srinagar, Jul 15 (GNS): An 8-year-old boy drowned while taking bath in river Jhelum in Asham Zoonipora in Hajin area in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Thursday.
Officials told GNS that a rescue operation was jointly launched by SDRF, police and locals soon after the incident was reported by the locals. After over an hour of rescue operation, the boy Sajad Shabir Shiekh son of Shabir Ahmad Shiekh, a resident of Zonipora, was recovered dead.
Meanwhile a police official confirming the incident told GNS that the body was handed over to the family after medico-legal formalities.
It is pertinent to mention here that an 80-year-old man died after slipping in river Jhelum while performing ablution, in Hajin area earlier this morning. (GNS)
