Srinagar, April 17 -- Six people including school students drowned while three others including a father-son are missing after a passenger boat capsized in Jhelum at Gundbal Batwara on Tuesday morning. Five people have been rescued in the incident.

Around 15 people were on board the boat including several students to cross the river when the boat hit a steel pillar of the underconstruction bridge due to which the boat capsized.

Soon after the incident, rescuers comprising the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and Jammu and Kashmir Police reached the spot of the accident and launched a massive rescue operation. According to local inputs, the joint team of rescuers has retrieved the bodies of six people including five students. Five pe...