2 minor sisters drown in Indus River in KP’s Shangla

Two minor sisters drowned on Tuesday in the Indus River in the Bisham tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Shangla district, according to officials.

Bisham Station House Officer (SHO) Khurshid Ali told Dawn.com that the children had gone to the river to play at the river bank, where the strong current ended up drowning them.

SHO Ali said the girls’ ages, as told by their relatives, were seven and nine.

He said locals and Rescue 1122 teams were participating in the rescue work to retrieve the bodies as the search continued.