Three drown in boat capsize

Three persons were drowned after the boat they were riding, capsized at Kanota dam in the district, police said today.

The deceased were identified as Narendra Singh, Kuldeep, and Mohammed Jaffar, they said.

The three had gone to the dam on Friday evening for a boat ride, but later it capsized and they all drowned, police said.

The bodies were identified yesterday morning and handed over to the relatives after postmortem, they said, adding the cause of the incident was yet to be ascertained.