Tauseef Ahmad
Bandipora, June 15: A two-year-old girl died after drowning in an irrigation canal in Ankhulu Sumbal village of North Kashmir’s Bandipora District on Thursday afternoon.
Reports reaching Kashmir Despatch indicate that the two-year-old girl identified as Janat Zehra, daughter of Javid Ahmed Dar and Odina Sumbal, drowned in an irrigation canal.
Soon after the incident, a rescue operation was launched, and locals took the girl to CHC Sumbal, where doctors declared her dead.
However, soon after legal formalities, the body was handed over to her family for last rites.