A minor boy and his eight-year-old sister are feared and drowned after they were washed away in the Tawi river in Jammu city, on Tuesday.

News agency PTI quoted official as saying that police and SDRF team have launched a rescue operation to trace Ismael (6) and his sister Nadiya.

The siblings were grazing cattle on the banks of the river on Monday night when they slipped into it while playing near Harki podi area, they said.

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