Anadolu Agency​: 6 dead in bridge collapse in Kashmir, Pakistan

Pakistani rescuers search for missing university students after a bridge collapsed in Kundal Shahi, Neelum district on May 13, 2018. (AFP)

May 13: Anadolu Agency report by Islamuddin Sajid states that at least six people died, with a dozen still missing, when a footbridge collapsed over a river in Pakistan’s Azad Kashmir territory on Sunday, officials said. A group of some 29 tourists, most of them students from Faisalabad and Multan in the northeastern Punjab province, were standing on the Kundal Shahi footbridge in the Neelum Valley taking selfies when it suddenly collapsed and all of them were swept away, Atiq Ahmad, a local administrative official, told Anadolu Agency on the phone.

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