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10 drown, 11 missing in boat capsize

PESHAWAR: At least 10 people drowned and 11 were missing after a boat carrying members of a wedding party capsized in Kabul River in North West Frontier province on Friday, local officials said.

They said the boat carrying 32 people returning from a wedding capsized in the river in Nowshera district because of a storm.

The Nowshera deputy commissioner told Reuters that 10 people were confirmed to have drowned, 11 were still presumed missing and 11 had been rescued.

It was the second deadly boat capsize in Pakistan in two days. At least 15 people drowned when a boat carrying devotees of a Moslem shrine capsized in Chenab river in the central province of Punjab on Wednesday.-Reuters