Three children drown in Karachi river

KARACHI: In a sorrowful incident, three children drowned in a river in Surjani Lyari Sector 36 area of Karachi on Sunday, ARY News reported.

Rescue teams recovered the bodies of three children who drowned in Surjani’s river and shifted them to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. The deceased children are aged between 7, 8 and 12 years.

Earlier in the month, the police and rescue teams recovered the bodies of a woman and his son who jumped into the sea at Karachi’s Mai Kolachi ‘to avoid getting hit by a train’.

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The woman and son – residents of Shireen Jinnah Colony – were walking on the railway track near Mai Kolachi when they heard sound of a cargo train.

To avoid getting hit by train, the mother-son duo jumped into sea but couldn’t survive. Upon receiving information, rescue teams arrived at the spot and fished out the bodies of the victims.