Reyaz Rashid

5 days after boat capsize, body of third drowned child traced in Baramulla

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Baramulla : Five days after three children drowned in boat capsized in Baramulla, body of third youth, Anzar Farooq Wani, was fished out from the Jhelum river in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Sunday.

The bodies of two other youth were recovered earlier while as third body was untraced.

The body of Anzar of Dewanbagh Baramulla by joint teams of State Disaster Response Force, Marcos and police on Sunday near ECO Park.

The body was handed over to the family for the last rites, police said.

Anzar along with two other boys had got drowned on May 1 when a boat carrying five persons capsized in the river after it lost the balance.

However, two boys were rescued in the incident.

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