Rescuers were shocked on Friday after they found a man’s body during a hunt for a drowned schoolboy in Kangan area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district.
The locals and the policemen were trying to trace a minor boy, Nadeem Bashir (14), who drowned in a power canal during a picnic earlier today in Kijpora village.
“As the search operation was on, the rescuers recovered the body of a missing man from Sindh nallah,” said an official.
The deceased was identified as Mohd Amin Shah (45) of Benhama village of Manigam.