NAWABSHAH/MIRPURKHAS: Four picnickers aged between 16 and 24 drowned in Chotiari Dam near Sanghar on Sunday.

They were identified as Ehtesham, Umar, Amanullah and Shahzeb— all residents of Khipro town.

The victims were bathing in the dam water when they drowned one after the other, local reporters said.

The Chotiari SHO along with his team and divers rushed to the dam on a directive of Sanghar SSP Ghulam Nabi Keerio and started rescue work.

The bodies were fished out and sent to Khipro after a postmortem examination at the Sanghar Civil Hospital.

In Mirpurkhas, residents of Haji Wali Mohammad Mangrio village of Sindhri taluka held a demonstration along Mithrao Canal on Monday over local administration’s failure to provide assistance to them in locating a woman and her two-year-old son who had gone missing a day earlier after falling into the irrigation channel.

They said the woman, Ms Sajni along with her son, Souraj, had drowned. They said that the woman, holding her son in her lap, slipped into the canal while washing clothes on its bank.

They deplored that locals had been making efforts day and night to locate them but the administration demonstrated its utter indifference. They said Souraj’s body was fished out by the locals after 36 hours of efforts but his mother was still missing.

Published in Dawn, June 10th, 2025