Two students drowned in Soan River

[Salman Mushtaq]

Two students drowned in Soan River on Thursday, according to their families.
The bodies were fished out by the divers and handed over to families.
According to details, Mohammad Ali, a 9th class student, and Malik Naqash, a first-year student, left their home in Malangan village near Kural Chowk along with their friends for swimming in Soan River on Thursday afternoon.
The families said the boys drowned after they went into deep water. Though the boys accompanying them desperately called for help, but the two were washed away before anything could be done.
Raja Shafqat Mehmood, an uncle of Ali, told Dawn that Ali’s elder brother had already been killed during firing on the rally of Nawaz Sharif in Kural Chowk on December 27, 2007.