SRINAGAR: Rescuers on Tuesday recovered the body of the third teenager who was swept away in the Tawi river near Sainik School Nagrota on the outskirts of Jammu, officials said. The body was found nearly half a kilometre downstream from the incident site.
Two other bodies had been retrieved on Monday following the incident that occurred on Sunday.
The three deceased have been identified as Bavish Koul (15), Sonam Dutt (16), and Aditya Pandit (15), all belonging to the Kashmiri Pandit community.
Officials said the teenagers were playing volleyball along the riverbank before entering the water to bathe, when they were caught in a strong current and swept away.
The bodies have been shifted to Government Medical College (GMC) Hospital Jammu for postmortem examination.
