At least 15 school children died in Indian occupied Kashmir on Tuesday after their boat capsized in the region's largest lake, police and army officials said. The children were on a trip when their boat went down the Wular lake, about 65 km (40 miles) north of occupied Srinagar.
A teacher and an office assistant also drowned. "The children were on a joy trip on an Indian navy boat when some of them shifted to one side of the boat causing the mishap," occupation army spokesman lieutenant colonel V.K. Batra told Reuters.
Two teachers and 12 children were rescued, he said. Shocked parents wailed near the lake as local villagers joined navy and police divers for rescue and search operations. The children belonged to a nearby school.
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