Srinagar, Apr 18: The search to find three persons, including a father and his son, who went missing after a boat capsized in the Jhelum River in Srinagar, continued on Thursday.
Six people, including two children and their mother, were killed and three went missing as a boat capsized on the river Jhelum in Gandbal Srinagar on Tuesday morning.
The State Disaster Response Force commandant, Atul Sharma, said the search operation is still going on.
There is no further update,” he said.
Besides SDRF, the other agencies involved in the search operation include the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), the Indian Navy’s marine commandos (Marcos), and the Jammu and Kashmir police.
The officials are now expecting that the bodies of the missing might come up to the surface of the river on their own. The police stations along the Jhelum River have been alerted to look for floating bodies.
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