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Anantnag, Jul 3: A 15-year-old boy drowned to death in a canal in Srigufwara area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district this afternoon, officials said.

They told that a boy namely Ajmal Hussain Khan, son of Master Ghulam Mohuidin Bakkerwal, a resident of Kathsoo Srigufwara drowned while bathing in Dadi canal. 

Soon after a rescue operation was launched yielding retrieval of the body of the teenager boy.

A police official in the meantime also confirmed about the death of the boy in the incident. (GNS)