Minor dies after slipping into water stream

Mohammad Younis

SOPORE, March 17: An eight-year-old boy died while falling into water stream near a playground at Doabgah Sopore in Baramulla district.

The deceased has been identified as Mohammad Raza Sumji son of Javed Ahmed Sumji of Doabgah area of North kashmir’s Baramulla district.

Reports said, some children living near vicinity of government higher secondary school Doabgah were playing in a playfield of the school on Sunday morning when one of them slipped into a nearby water stream.

The boy is said to have died on the spot.

After hue and cry the locals assembled at the spot and fished out his body.