NAROWAL: An eight-year old boy is feared drowned while trying to pull his shoe out of the Upper Chenab Canal at Malikhanwala village on the outskirts of Sambarial on Sunday.

Shamim Bibi, the wife of Muhammad Fayyaz, was washing clothes along with other women on the bank of the canal. Her eight-year-old son, Sada Hussain, was playing by the bank of the canal when his shoe fell into it.

Sada went into the canal to get his shoe out but slipped into deep water of the canal. He could not swim and drowned in the water. Shamim Bibi and other women of the village raised hue and cry and the locals arrived for rescue. They tried to rescue the boy but in vain.

District Emergency Officer Engineer Naveed Iqbal said the Rescue 1122 divers searched for the body of the child for seven hours but failed. He said the operation to search for the body in the Upper Chenab Canal would continue until divers find it.

Published in Dawn, December 6th, 2021