Two picnickers drown in Kabul River on Eid

CHARSADDA: Two picnickers drowned in Kabul River at Sardaryab point, the tourists resort at Charsadda district, during Eid holidays.

Local sources said that Nasir Iqbal, a resident of Gujrat in Punjab who was working at a sweets shop in Charsadda, had gone to Sardaryab for picnic on Sunday. He was swimming in the river when the gushing water swept him away. His body was retrieved by the divers from the river at Nowshera point after three days.

On Monday, three students identified as Shehzad Yousaf, Muhammad Asifuddin and Shehzad Ali, residents of Chitral, came to Sardaryab for picnic. They were swimming in the river when the speeding currents swept them away.

However, the local divers rescued Shehzad Yousaf and Muhammad Asifuddin while the search for the body of Shehzad Ali was still going on.Belonged to Washich village of Torkhow drowned Shehzad, son of Al-Waiz Sam Saam, had settled in Booni. He was a fresh graduate of LUMS or Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore.