Jammu, April 17 -- Senior NC leader and Former Finance Minister Ab Rahim Rather has expressed shock and grief over the loss of precious human lives including some school going children in a heart wrenching boat capsize incident in river Jehlum near Gandabal Batawara in Srinagar.

In a statement issued on Tuesday Ab Rahim Rather has expressed profound grief over the death of many school going children , after a boat capsized in river Jehlum near Gandabal Batawara in Srinagar early on Tuesday morning He has sought a thorough inquiry into the tragic incident. He said locals have alleged that today's tragedy is because of the absence of a bridge adding that the work on construction of a bridge near the accident has been abondoned since the la...