Boat capsizes in Srinagar, four dead, 19 missing

SRINAGAR: Four people died and scores of others including several children going to school were missing when a boat ferrying them across the Jhelum river overturned in Srinagar, occupied Kashmir.

Many office workers and schoolchildren take a boat across the river in the morning to avoid road traffic. Accidents are common on the treacherous roads of the mountainous region but passenger boat disasters are rare.