SRINAGAR: A 24-year-old youth drowned while extracting sand from river Jhelum in the south Kashmir district of Pulwama on Monday morning.
Quoting an official news agency KDC reported that a group of men were extracting sand from the banks of river Jhelum at Kakapora in Pulwama today morning.
He said that however, a labourer, identified as Manzoor Ahmad son of Mushtaq Ahmed, a resident of Hayatpora, slipped and fell into the river.
He said that after receiving the information search operation was launched to trace out his body.
