Mother, five-year-old child washed away in Ladakh

A woman and her five-year-old child were on Wednesday washed away in a river near Kharboo in the Kargil district of the Union territory of Ladakh.

ADGP Ladakh said that the body of the woman has been retrieved at Kaksar in a search operation while the child’s body remained untraceable.

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He said rescue operation was launched the immediately after the mother-child duo were drowned in the river Shingo Drass.

Search for the child is underway, he added.