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Pulwama

Jammu and Kashmir: Labourer drowns during sand extraction from Jhelum in Pulwama

| @indiablooms | Aug 19, 2020, at 10:12 pm

Srinagar/UNI: A 21-year-old labourer drowned during sand extraction from river Jhelum in south Kashmir district of Pulwama on Wednesday.

Official sources said that a group of people were extracting sand from the Jhelum at Pampore in Pulwama on Wednesday. “One of them, identified as Irshad Ahmad Sheikh, slipped and fell into the river while extracting sand on a boat,” they said.

They said other people present at the spot also jumped into the river to save him. However, they said the youth drowned. “The body of the labourer was later fished out from the river,” they said, adding after completing all the legal and medical formalities, the body of the deceased was handed over to his relatives for last rites. 

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