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Two brothers drown in nullah

By Our Correspondent 2015-08-12
NAROWA L: Two teenage brothers drowned on Tuesday while taking a bath in the nullah Basanter near village Nidala Sulehrian in Shakargarh.

Muhammad Faizan, 13, with his brother Muhammad Arsalan, 14, and cousin Muhammad Shehzad was in the chest-deep water in the nullah when Faizan ended up in the deep water.

Arsalan and Shehzad jumped into the water to rescue him but they also could not escape the strong current.

Passersby jumped into the nullah but they could rescue only Shehzad.

The divers of Rescue 1122 retrieved Faizan and Arslan dead after one hour search. Both brothers were students ofclass 9in alocalschool.

Their father, Muhammad Shahid, a retired army personnel, is a security guard with a private school. The deaths of two brothers saddened the locality.