RAWALPINDI: A scavenger slipped into the water and drowned while collecting miscellaneous objects from a pond in Bahria Town Phase VII near Shaheen Chowk on Wednesday.
The emergency services said, while quoting eye witnesses, that a group of five scavengers were collecting objects from the water surface, when one of them was sitting on a thermocol sheet that slipped into the water and drowned.
Later, a team of Rescue 1122, including swimmers and divers, reached the site and began searching for the drowning boy. Subsequently, the body of the 17-year-old victim was retrieved by the rescue team and handed over to his heirs.