11, including 10 of a family, drown in canal.

TOBA TEK SINGH -- Bodies of nine members of family who had drowned in the Mailsi Link Canal on Saturday were recovered on Sunday, 24 hours after the incident on Abdul Hakim-Mian Channu Road near Brahamanwala Bridge.

Allah Ditta, an official of the Talumba Police Station, said the family was on way from Sheikhupura to Mian Channu's Fazal Colony in a van when it hit a motorcycle on Brahamanwala Bridge of the canal. As a result, the van as well as the motorcyclist fell into canal. All the nine people travelling in the van and the motorcyclist drowned.

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