10 children die in a shipwreck when they went on an excursion
in pakistan Ten children were found dead after the shipwreck of the boat in which they were traveling across the Tanda Dam lake, in the northwest of the country. All the victims found in the lake in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, they were between 7 and 14 years oldsaid police officer Mir Rauf.
Meanwhile, the official noted that rescuers managed to save 17 children alive, of which at least 6 were taken to the hospital in critical condition. No further information has been released about his state of health. Muhammad Mustafa, an 11-year-old boy who managed to survive to the incident, he said that “the ship capsized suddenly”.
“The water was very cold,” said a survivor
“The water was very cold, my body was numb, I was about to lose consciousness when a man rescued me,” he recounted lying in a hospital bed in the neighboring city of Kohat.
This was the reason for the shipwreck of the boat with children
The victims were between the ages of 7 and 14.
However, according to a local police official, Adbul Rauf, said that “the ship was in poor condition and was overloaded“. The boat was transporting between 25 and 30 students from a local school who were on a field trip when it was shipwrecked.
The authorities of the region announced that the rescue operation will continue ongoing in the lake, as they have not yet been able to locate three minors who are still missing after the shipwreck.
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Rescue teams managed to save another 17 children
Islam is the official religion of this country.is practiced by more than 95 percent of the population (mostly Sunni orthodoxy, Shiite 20 percent); 2 percent are Christians; 1.6 percent are Hindus and the rest belong to small sects.
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