Forty-nine children died when their overloaded boat capsized in northwest Pakistan, police said Tuesday after divers spent three days dragging bodies from freezing waters.
had been taken for a day trip to the scenic Tanda Dam lake on Sunday.
The bodies of a teacher and one skipper were also pulled from the water, he added, bringing the death toll to 51. "Every time a body was recovered from the scene, they would jump onto the diver to see if it was their son and every time we would hear them screaming in pain and anguish," he told AFP over the phone on Tuesday.Tanda Dam lake is about five kilometers away from the madrassa—an Islamic school that offers free religious education—in Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Pakistan's army shared images showing divers traversing the lake in rubber dinghies, entering the green waters to pull out the bodies of children.
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