Woman, 5 children dead after boat capsizes in Indian Kashmir
The Peninsula
Srinagar: A woman and five children were killed after a boat ferrying them across a swollen river capsized in Indian administeredKashmiron Tuesday, of...
Srinagar: A woman and five children were killed after a boat ferrying them across a swollen river capsized in Indian-administered Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said.
Rescuers in rubber boats joined by marine commandos and divers were searching for three others believed to have been aboard.
Residents said the remaining missing were schoolchildren on their way to class when the boat overturned in the Jhelum river in the city of Srinagar.
"Six died in the accident, another six were rescued and three are still missing," Srinagar district magistrate Bilal Mohi-ud-Din Bhat told AFP.
"Our information so far is that 15 people were on the boat," he said.
