Beating the heat: Two teenagers drown

ISLAMABAD:

Two teenagers on Tuesday drowned in a stream on the outskirts of Islamabad, the police said.

Muhammad Lucman and Rehan Ahmed drowned in the Jood stream some five kilometres from Golra, while they were swimming there. IO Alamgir Khan said the teenagers drowned in Jood, which passes through a village near Golra.

He said both deceased seem to have lost their balance and fallen in deeper water. The police said that due to the soaring heat, many youngsters come to the area to take a dip in the water. He said both boys were residents of Mera Haku a village in Golra. The bodies were handed over to their families after postmortems.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 25^th, 2014.