Srinagar, April 19 -- The search to trace the three persons, including a father and his son, who went missing after a boat capsized in Jhelum River in Srinagar, continued on Thursday. Six people, including two children and their mother, were killed and three went missing as a boat carrying the students to school on Tuesday morning capsized on the Jhelum in Gandbal, Batwara.

All the children on the board studied in the school across the river. The boat overturned around 8 am after hitting an iron pole in the middle of the river as the wooden boat headed east from Gandabal towards Batwara with 19 passengers on board. The State Disaster Response Force commandant, Atul Sharma, said the search operation is still going on. "There is no further...