Swept away: Two teenage girls drown in Indus River

SWABI: Two teenage girls drowned in the Indus River near the Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway Bridge in Swabi on Tuesday while the mother of one of the girls was rescued by relatives. A police official said the family had come to the river for a picnic when two 17-year-old girls, daughters of Wisal Khan and his elder brother Mohabbat Khan, slipped and fell into the water. Mohabbat Khan’s wife jumped into the river to rescue the girls but failed and the teenage girls drowned. Relatives managed to pull out Khan’s wife. The police official said divers pulled out the bodies by the evening the same day. Many people from Swabi and neighbouring districts come to swim in the river despite a ban by the district magistrate under Section 144.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 17^th, 2014.