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Islamabad, January 29: Ten children died after their boat capsized in a dam in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan on Sunday. An officer gave this information. District Deputy Commissioner Furkan Ashraf said that a boat carrying 25 children capsized in Kohat’s Tanda Dam on Sunday morning and divers rescued 16 of them and took them to the hospital.
According to Xinhua news agency, Ashraf said that nine other bodies were recovered from the dam, while a child breathed his last in the hospital. Also read: Arwal SP Video: Arwal’s SP’s bureaucracy, junior constable tied laces after wearing shoes – video viral
Speaking to Xinhua, sources in the Edhi Foundation, a rescue organisation, said that the children were students of a madrasa who had gone to the dam for sightseeing.
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