Srinagar: A tourist was killed and three others were rescued after their rafting boat capsized during rafting in Palhalgam resort in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Thursday.
A police officer told GNS that four members of a family from Gujarat were rafting in Pahalgam and suddenly the boat overturned. “All the four members fell into the rushing water. The recue team immediately swung into the action and rescued three of them while Harsha, 57, wife of Mahendra Singh, was hit by a stone and fell unconscious inside the river,” he said.
She was immediately evacuated to nearby hospital where she succumbed due to grave head injuries, the official said.
Meanwhile, police have registered a case and an FIR has been lodged in this regard. (GNS)