Three young men drowned in the Indus River in Attock Khurd while celebrating a picnic, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Friday.

According to the police, body of one of the young men was retrieved while search for the other two continued.

As per the Rescue personnel, 19-year-old Hussain Shah son of Waheed Shah of Barzai village while two other youths, 18-year-old Waqar and 20-year-old Abdul Ghani, who came from Peshawar to celebrate a picnic at the bank of the Indus River in Attock Khurd drowned while taking a bath in the river on Thursday.

Other visitors tried to save them but they were swept away by gushing water.

Rescue 1122 personnel rushed to the site and launched a rescue operation. They searched for hours but due to darkness after sunset, the search was called off for today.

It should be remembered that every year on the occasion of Eid days, many people who come for a picnic at the Indus River bank drown and die, and the bodies of many of them are found after weeks.

Reporter Muhammad Imran