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Four teenagers drown in Indus River
Hyderabad: In a tragic incident, four teenage boys have drowned who waded into Indus River for a swim.
The four victims are identified as Hamza (16), Awais Khalid (15), Zia (19) and Umair (14) and two of them were brothers.
The teenagers were residents of Latifabad.
Reportedly, they were not very adept at swimming and proceeding into very deep waters proved fatal.
As per police, when the four had gone very far in the river, and found the water too deep, they tried to swim back ashore, but failed.
The incident took place on Wednesday evening and their corpse were found by rescue team on Thursday morning.
The dead bodies have been shifted to morgue from where they would be handed over to their heirs.