Accident: Youngster drowns in BRB Canal

The boy slipped and fell into the canal near while he was on his way to the house of his school fellow

DASKA: A youth, Saad Mehmood, on Thursday drowned in Bambaanwala-Ravi-Bedian (BRB) Canal, Daska. The boy slipped and fell into the canal near the newly established Daska Judicial Complex while he was on his way to the house of his school fellow, Hassan, son of additional district & session judge Sheikh Sajjad Ahmed. The deceased was a student of FSc. The body was later pulled out by rescuers belonging to non-government organisation, Young Blood Foundation. A large number of lawyers, judicial officials and lower courts’ staff gathered at the spot.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 15^th, 2011.