Mother and daughter are feared to be washed away in the sudden floods in the Chatyari area of Rajouri district late last night. Both the mother and daughter were working in their fields when the area was flooded. Soon after the incident, the area’s people reached the spot and started searching for the mother and daughter, but they could not be traced due to darkness.
Police said rescue operations resumed with the first light of the sun. With the help of local people, the police are again continuing the operation to find the mother and daughter, but no trace of them has been found so far. The two have been identified as Gulzar Begum (60), wife Mohammad Akbar, and daughter Maqsooda (40).
Local people say that after the heavy rain started in the night, mother and daughter had come to stop the drain water in the fields. When they were building a dam in the areas, the drain flooded and both of them got swept away by it.
