2 engineering students drowned in Kashmir

Baramulla, Jun 16 (UNI) Two students of a private engineering college were drowned in the river Jhelum at Uri today, official sources said.

They said the students of a college drowned in the river Jhelum at Uri, about 50 km from here, this afternoon.

Efforts were on to fish out the bodies, they said, adding a group of students of the college had gone there for a picnic.

Early this year a truck driver fell into the river in the same area and later his body was recovered in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The body was later handed over to troops by Pakistan Army.

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