Pakistan: 49 children drown after overloaded boat capsizes in lake

Bodies of teacher and skipper pulled from water at Tanda Dam tourist site, bringing death toll to 51

Forty-nine children died when their overloaded boat capsized in north-west Pakistan, police have said, after divers spent three days dragging bodies from freezing waters.

The boys, aged between seven and 14, were all students of a madrassa and had been taken for a day trip to the scenic Tanda Dam lake on Sunday.

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