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MUZAFFARGARH, Oct 12: Army divers on Sunday fished out bodies of three out of four teenaged boys who drowned in the Chenab River on Friday.
Earlier, the local civil defence officials failed to find the bodies after which the district coordination officer (DCO) called army divers from Mangla and they fished out the bodies of Adeel Abbas, Amir and Fraz Abbas 48 hours after they drowned.
Mohsin Raza Magassi, a family member, said that all the boys had gone for picnicking on the river bank on Oct 10 and later drowned while swimming. He said the local civil defence department had no apparatuses available to cope with emergencies.
DCO Tariq Javed Malik ordered the revenue department to set up an emergency camp on the river bank till all the bodies were fished out.
DEMO: No Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) forward bloc MPA attended protest camps and a rally organised by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to mark the Oct 12 as a black day.
Hundred or so protesters chanted slogans against General Pervez Musharraf (retired) and asked the government to launch FIR against the dictator.
Though no MPA or MNA returned on the PML-N ticket from this district in the Feb 18 elections, couple of MPAs of the PML-Q joined the forward bloc and started supporting the PML-N government in Punjab but they also did not turn up in the protest camps.
PML-N district president Ihsan Kareem Qureshi said that his leader Nawaz Sharif would take action against Musharraf while general-secretary Ghulam Mustafa Khar Junior said that Muzaffargarh would become Mini Lahore in the upcoming elections.
