An eight year old boy drowns while taking bath in Kathua Canal

AN 8-year-old boy drowned while bathing in the Kathua Canal adjacent to Dreamland Park. The boy identified as Ankit Kumar hailing from Chhattisgarh was swept away by the current while bathing in the canal. The SDRF team was promptly called to the scene and managed to rescue him, but he had already succumbed to the drowning.