Bodies of both the teenage boys who accidentally fell into a storage tank in Dardpora Kralpora in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Sunday have been retrieved.
According to news agency GNS, Amir Mohuid-din Khawaja son of Ghulam Mohuiddin Khawaja and Faheem Iqbal Khawaja son of Mohammad Iqbal Khawaja – residents of Maidan Pati Dardpora Kral-pora (B), had fallen into a storage tank while appar-ently fetching a cricket ball from the water source.
A rescue operation was subsequently launched by locals, later assisted by police and army to re-trieve the bodies. After a few hours of hectic efforts amid prevailing inclement weather conditions, the bodies were retrieved in succession. A police official confirming the retrieval of bod-ies told GNS that bodies were being handed over to the families for last rites. A pall of gloom has de-scended over the area on the tragic death of the teenage duo.—GK
