Six people, including two children and their mother, were killed and three went missing as a boat carrying students to school capsized on the Jhelum in Gandbal
Gandbal was in mourning on Tuesday when a boat, carrying 15 people to cross the river towards Batwara, capsized, leaving six people, including three school children, dead
The boat overturned around 8am as the wooden boat, roughly 15-feet long and seven-feet wide, headed from Gandabal towards Batwara, with 15 passengers on board
Water transport lost favour as roads and bridges made travel faster. But that is not the case anymore. Now, waterways offer parallel routes to many destinations