KARACHI: A boy drowned while swimming in the Malir river on Friday, police and rescuers said.

They said that some boys were swimming in the river near Shah Faisal Colony-5. One of them, identified as Abdul Rehman, 12, drowned.

Korangi Industrial Area SHO Akhlaq Ahmed said that the boy was rescued and shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

Bodies fished out from Hub River

The body of a minor boy and his maternal aunt were fished out from Hub River near Rais Goth in Baldia Town on Friday.

An Edhi Foundation spokesperson said that their divers recovered the body of Abdullah, 5, and Faiza, 30, and shifted them to the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi to fulfil medico-legal formalities.

A family from Orangi Town had gone for a picnic at the Hub River on Thursday. The boy fell into the river while playing and her aunt tried to save him and drowned.

Efforts to recover infant drowned in Shadman Nullah

Edhi Foundation divers on Friday launched a renewed search operation to recover the infant who along with his mother drowned in Shadman Nullah during heavy rain.

The spokesperson said that the search operation was under way at two spots in the Lyari river.

The couple and their two children drowned when their motorbike fell in the unfenced drain due to darkness and heavy rains. The man and his minor daughter were rescued immediately. However, the woman and her two-months-old baby, Azlan, drowned. The body of the woman was recovered later.

Published in Dawn, July 23rd, 2022