Three drown in two incidents in Hyderabad

Two of the deceased were cousins and belonged to the village of Local Government Minister Jam Khan Shoro


Our Correspondent May 24, 2018
PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE

HYDERABAD: Two boys and a two-year-old girl died on Wednesday in separate incidents of drowning in Hyderabad district.

Two of the deceased, 12-year-old Shan Shoro and 16-year-old Mustafa Shoro, were cousins and belonged to the village of Local Government Minister Jam Khan Shoro. They drowned while swimming in a pond near their village.

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In the other incident, two-year-old Nadia, daughter of Farhan Ali, drowned in a canal near the Noorani Basti area. Her body was retrieved from the canal.

Incidents of drowning in the Indus River and its canals increase during the summer as a large number of people go to the river and canals to bathe to cool off their bodies.

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