Bandipora, June 7: In a heart-wrenching incident, a three-year-old boy drowned in a water canal in Khuserpora village of Hajin area in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Friday.
The deceased has been identified as Saqib Ahmad War, son of Shahnaz Ahmad War, a resident of Khuserpora Hajin.
An official said the child drowned in the canal near his home.
He was immediately rushed to the Community Health Centre (CHC) Hajin, where doctors declared him brought dead.
A pall of gloom descended over the village as the child’s body was brought home from the hospital for burial.
