Three drown in canal in KP’s Malakand: Rescue 1122

Three people drowned in a canal in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Malakand district on Thursday, while a body was discovered in a river in Upper Dir in a separate incident, rescue officials told said.

Rescue 1122 official Nasar Khan told Dawn.com that four people, including a minor, were bathing in the canal to cool off amid intense heat.

“All four people were recovered from the canal by divers, but three of them had drowned,” Nasar said. “One person was still alive and we transported him...