At least 4 dead, 21 missing after boat capsizes in Pakistan

Peshawar: At least four people have been killed and 21 still missing after a boat capsized in northwest Pakistan, officials said on Thursday, with a rescue operation continuing as hopes for finding survivors fade. The boat was carrying passengers along the Indus River from Shangla to Haripur district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday when it overturned. “There were 38 people on the boat when the incident occurred and 13 people saved their lives by swimming to the shore,” local police official Zahid Ullah said. (AFP)