A 20-year-old labourer drowned in river Jhelum while he was extracting sand in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Wednesday morning.
Kashmir News Observer, a local news gathering agency reported that Irshad Ahmad Sheikh, son of Bashir Ahmad Sheikh of Larow Kakapora slipped and fell into the river when he was extracting sand along with other persons in Pulwama.
However a team of police reached the spot and started a massive rescue operation to retrieve the body from the river.
When filled this report searches were on.