SIALKOT: Three people were feared drowned in the Upper Chenab Canal here on Saturday.

Sadiq Masih, Ilyas and Kashif went missing while taking a bath in the Upper Chenab Canal.

Divers of Rescue 1122 are busy searching them.

DEAD: Two persons died of heatstroke here on Saturday.

Ehsan, 60, died of heatstroke while working in a factory on Naikapura-Eimanabad Road while his colleague Muhammad Butt passed out and was admitted to hospital.

Bashir Husain, 62, also died of scorching heat in Pasrur city.

Published in Dawn, July 5th, 2015

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