Two brothers drown near Ghazi

HARIPUR: Two brothers drowned in the Indus River near Ghazi, police said here on Friday.

Ghazi police quoted eyewitnesses as saying that two teenage boys were bathing in the Indus river near Khalo village in Ghazi tehsil when one of them slipped into deep water and drowned.

His younger brother in a bid to rescue him also drowned. The villagers rescued both the teenagers and shifted them to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Ghazi where one of them, Talha, 17, was pronounced as brought dead while his brother Khizar, 15, was admitted for treatment. His condition was out of danger, doctors and police said.