Peshawar, Pakistan: Ten kids died when their boat capsized on Sunday in northwest Pakistan, a neighborhood police official mentioned.
The entire useless up to now recovered from Tanda Dam lake, close to Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, have been between seven and 14-years-old, based on native police official Mir Rauf.
Rauf mentioned 11 kids had been rescued from the water, with six in vital situation. The boat was carrying between 25 and 30 college students on a daytrip from a neighborhood madrassa when it overturned.
“A rescue operation is underway,” Rauf instructed AFP.
Mass drownings are frequent in Pakistan, when aged and overloaded vessels lose their stability and pitch passengers into the water.
Many within the nation have no idea learn how to swim, significantly ladies who’re discouraged from studying owing to conservative social mores. Their all-covering garments additionally weigh them down as soon as they turn out to be sodden.
In July, 18 ladies drowned when an overcrowded boat carrying a marriage get together throughout the Indus river in Punjab province capsized.
