Outdoor activities: Two people drown while swimming

NAUDERO: A boy identified as 13-year-old Oshaq Kalhoro drowned in the Dadu canal near the Munshi Khuda Bux Phulpoto village on Sunday. His friend, Shahmeer, who was visiting from Nasirabad, was saved by a herdsman and taken to Chandka Medical College Hospital in Larkana. The boys had gone swimming in the canal without informing their families. Oshaq’s family is still searching for the body. In an unrelated incident, 28-year-old Azizullah drowned while swimming in Keenjhar Lake on Sunday. Azizullah was a resident of Karachi.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 4^th, 2012.