MANSEHRA: Pakistan Navy on Saturday joined the search operation being carried out for the bodies of seven people, six of them members of a family, who had drowned in the Indus River after a car they were travelling in plunged into it in Upper Kohistan district on Oct 19.

“Divers from five districts have already been taking part in the search operation in the Indus River, and now the Pakistan Navy’s scuba divers have also joined in,” Abdul Rehman, a Rescue 1122, Upper Kohistan official, told reporters.

He said that rescue teams from Peshawar, Nowshera, Mansehra, Shangla and Upper Kohistan districts were continuing the search for bodies, but flooding in the river was hampering their effort.

The rescue official said that the unfortunate family was going to Gilgit from Lower Dir.

“The missing persons included Nisar Khan, his wife, 25, mother, 50, a sister, 22, and an aunt and her two-year-old daughter, and the car driver, a resident of Bajaur district,” he said.

Mr Rehman said that Rescue 1122, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa director general was constantly in touch with the teams searching for the bodies.

Published in Dawn, October 30th, 2022