Teenage girl, man found dead in separate incidents in J&K

A 22-year-old man and a teenage girl were found dead in separate incidents in Poonch and Udhampur districts of Jammu and Kashmir, the police said today.

Body of Mohammad Rameez Malik (22), a resident of Surankote, was found in Azad Mohalla locality of Poonch this morning, they said.

The police have started an investigation to ascertain the cause of his death.

In the other incident, body of a 15-year-old girl was recovered from a stream near her residence at Khabal village in Majalta area of Udhampur district yesterday.

Preliminary investigations suggest that the girl had accidentally fallen into the water body from a nearby hillock, resulting in her death, the official said, adding the police has started inquest proceedings in this connection.