Day 11: Swimmer from Gbl roped in to search Sopore girl’s body in river Jhelum
Local fishermen call off search operation, SDRF to continue search
Sopore: As the body of Sopore teenager continues to remain untraced for 11th straight day, with rescue teams another expert from Ganderbal with his extraordinary skills has started to try his luck.
An official told Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that the search operation to trace the body of a teenage girl, who jumped into the river Jhelum in Sopore town, entered its 11th day on Thursday.
The expert swimmer from Kangan area of Ganderbal, Bashir Ahmed Mir (39) travelled 40 kilometers to reach Sopore to join the rescue and search operation team.
Mir possesses extraordinary swimming skills to rescue people from drowning and retrieve missing bodies from rivers and streams.
“I’m doing this social work in the name of Allah,” Mir told KNO and claimed that he has saved almost 100 of the people who drowned.
Mir said the Jhelum has been polluted to a larger extent. “I used my techniques but the current temperature due to the Chill e Kalan makes it more hectic to go deeper,” he said.
Meanwhile, local fishermen communities who were part of the rescue and search operations have decided to call off the operation. While as an official from the SDRF said, they will continue the operation till any orders from the higher-ups.
Earlier, an expert of Pulwama – Abdul Salaam, a 64-year-old man from Kakapora area, who claims to have saved 18 lives and fished out at least 40 bodies from the various water bodies across the Kashmir Valley joined the operation, but Salaam’s expertise didn’t pave anything, citing the flow of Jhelum near the spot.
