25 tourists swim away at Neelam Valley

Lahore : A big human tragedy happened in Neelam Valley, Azad Kashmir as 25 people including women and children drowned in River Neelam at Jagran . The ill fated families were making selfies and pictures while standing on the wood bridge that broken down due to load and all the cheering started crying for help and within seconds they flooded away with the powerful waves .

Only 4 people who could swim a little bit were lucky enough to saved alive. 5 bodies have been recovered by the rescuers .

The tourist families belonged to Faisalabad and Lahore including a group of students and teachers of TIPS College ,Faisalabad .A special control room has been set-up in Muzaffarabad for the information about incident , families could get contact with control room at the 0582220097 .

Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider has directed for inquiry to fix the responsible of the incident .