TAXILA: Three teenage girls drowned in River Indus near Mulla Mansoor village of Attock on Thursday.

According to District Emergency Officer Ali Hussain, four girls had come to Attock from Parachinar to visit their relatives. He said the girls - Sahiba Suleman, 18, Ranian Suleman, 17, Hadiya Ibrahim, 17, and Salma Jan, 16, went to the river for picnicking where one of them fell into the water. The others tried to save her and drowned one by one.

On seeing them in distress, people near the bank of the river jumped into the water and retrieved Sahiba in a critical condition and shifted her in a Rescue 1122 ambulance to the tehsil headquarters hospital Hazro.

Rescue 1122 launched a search and rescue operation and retrieved the three bodies and handed them over to the family for burial.

Published in Dawn, July 22nd, 2022