Five drown in Chenab, Indus.

MUZAFFARGARH -- Five people drowned in the Chenab and the Indus in three incidents here on the second day of Eid (Monday).

Five members of a family - three sisters and their two cousins - went to the Chenab for picnic at Ibrahim Pattan. Talking selfies along the bank, Kiran and her sister Heer slipped into the river and drowned. Rescuers claimed to have recovered body of Kiran on Tuesday while search for the other was under way.

In the second incident which took place at Head Mohammad Wala on Tuesday evening, Moteeur Rehman along with friends wanted to bathe in the Chenab while a police team tried to stop him from doing so but he jumped into the river. His body was yet to be recovered.

In another incident, two sisters Samreen and Nasreen were cutting fodder on a waterlogged stretch of...