Srinagar, April 17 -- Heart-wrenching scenes unfolded in Srinagar's Gandabal area. Mourners recall that Showkat Ahmad, a proficient mason, left home on Tuesday morning to drop his son Haziq Showkat to school.

The school is situated on opposite sides of the Jhelum, and they are yet to return, as the boat they travelled in capsized in the river.

Among the father-son duo is another missing person, Farhan Parray. All three are among the fifteen persons who drowned when a boat ferrying locals and non-local J&K residents to the other side of the Jhelum capsized.

"Among the missing, Showkat Ahmad was the lone brother among six sisters and a helping hand to the family. He was a mason, but a man of his word and a hardworking person," his neighb...