LAKKI MARWAT: Two people including a child on Thursday drowned in a rainwater pond in Lakki Marwat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday, ARY News reported.
According to rescue sources, the incident was reported in Lakki Marwat’s Abba Khel area, where a man drowned in a rainwater pond while trying to save the child.
The identities of the deceased could not be ascertained as per initial reports, while the bodies have been fished out and moved to a nearby hospital.
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