Srinagar: Police recovered an unidentified male body from the River Jhelum near Nalamandpora, Chattabal, a police spokesperson informed Friday.
He said medico-legal formalities have been completed and the dead body is kept in the mortuary of GMC Srinagar for identification purposes. The general public is requested to come forward and help police in the identification of the deceased person, the spokesperson said.
An unidentified female body was also recovered from a stream near Aharbal area in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Friday evening, officials said.
Quoting officials, news agency KNO reported that police and SDRF personnel fished out the body from the Veshow stream near Aharbal after they were informed about it by the locals.
The identity of the woman is being ascertained, police said, adding that the body is in a decomposed state, indicating that it had been in the water for some time.
Notably, a cab driver and a woman from Srinagar had gone missing in the same area on September 30 this year.