Minor girl slips to death, boy washed away in flash floods

Rajouri: A minor girl aged one year died after she slipped into a stream while a nine-year-old boy was washed away in flash floods in Rajouri district, officials said Saturday.

Officials said that a year-old girl Arifa daughter of Shabir Muhammad slipped into a stream near her house at Gundi Kotranka Tehisil in Rajouri district. “She drowned to death and her body was fished out later,” the officials said.

In the second incident, a nine-year-old boy was washed away in the flash flood in Jamola village of Rajouri who was identified as Faizan Ali (9) son of Niyamit Ali. “The boy was crossing a small water channel flash flood took him way,” the official said, adding that his body was also fished out later. (KNO)

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