Srinagar: A youth from Sopore drowned in a Lidder in Pahalgam area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Monday.

Srinagar based News Agency Kashmir Scroll quoted officials as saying that a 21 year old male namely Basit Ahmad Bhat son of  Gh Rasool Bhat R/o Sopore  has drowned in Lidder Nala near Langalbal Pahalgam while bathing.

He said that he was rescued by the NDRF team and was taken to the sub district hospital Pahalgam where he succumbed.

Meanwhile further proceedings in this regard have been taken up.