{"id":10195,"date":"2025-06-12T06:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=10195"},"modified":"2025-06-12T06:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:04:22","slug":"six-drowned-picnickers-corpses-retrieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=10195","title":{"rendered":"Six drowned picnickers’ corpses retrieved"},"content":{"rendered":"
The bodies of six members of two families who had drowned in in the Indus and Jhelum rivers have been found.<\/p>\n

In Bhakkar, a family outing to the Indus river ended in tragedy when a 21-year-old woman drowned along with her two young cousins. According to local officials, a six-year-old girl slipped into the river, after which her 13-year-old sister jumped in to save her.<\/p>\n

Seeing both girls drowning, their 21-year-old cousin also leapt into the river to rescue them. However, the strong current swept all three into deeper water.<\/p>\n

Upon hearing the screams for help from Lal Shah, the husband of the woman, local residents began a search and retrieved the bodies from the river after about half an hour.<\/p>\n

Bhakkar District Police Officer Shehzad Rafiq Awan told The Express Tribune that the deceased woman had been married 15 days earlier and was visiting a relative, Syed Taqqi Shah, in Jhok Jando, along with her husband, from the nearby town of Behal.<\/p>\n

Due to the river’s proximity, they had gone for sightseeing at the Basti Mian Khan dyke with the two young cousins.<\/p>\n

The funeral of the woman was held in Kathanwalla and of Taqi Shah’s daughters in Jhok Jando.<\/p>\n

The DPO explained that the incident had occurred during daytime and the water was seven to eight feet deep at the spot where the six-year-old girl had drowned. Her 13-year-old sister and newlywed cousin jumped into the same dangerous area in an attempt to save her, resulting in all three losing their lives.<\/p>\n

As the area descended into gloom over the tragedy, the official emphasised the importance of avoiding to take young children to the riversides.<\/p>\n

He suggested that even adults should prefer alternative locations for recreation.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the bodies of three members of a family from Kot Lashkari Khan in Sahiwal district were retrieved from River Jhelum.<\/p>\n

The family had gone to the river for recreation on the third day of Eid. A woman was taking selfies near the river when she slipped into the water. Her sister attempted to rescue her.<\/p>\n

Eventually, four family members were swept away while trying to save each other from drowning.<\/p>\n

Local residents managed to save one young man, Zeeshan Anwar.<\/p>\n

Sarfaraz Raja, his wife Nida and sister-in-law Nazia Sajjad drowned in the river. Their bodies were found seven kilometres downstream 20 hours later.<\/p>\n

The bodies were retrieved by local divers and teams from Rescue 1122.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bodies of six members of two families who had drowned in in the Indus and Jhelum rivers have been found. In Bhakkar, a family outing to the Indus river ended in tragedy when a 21-year-old woman drowned along with her two young cousins. According to local officials, a six-year-old girl slipped into the river, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}