Boy goes missing after flash flood hits rivulet in Poonch
Poonch: Swept by flash floods, a nomad boy is missing since Sunday evening after getting trapped in strong water currents in a rivulet in Surankote tehsil of Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Locals said that two nomadic boys hailing from Kallar village of Mendhar sub division of Poonch district were grazing their cattle in higher reaches of Bahram Gala area.
They said that the two were crossing a rivulet when flash flood caused a sharp rise in its water level.
One of the boys, locals said, was saved from drowning but the other one was swept away by strong currents.
Police also confirmed that the boy from Kallar is missing since yesterday evening and searches are going on to trace him.
