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Pakistan: Rescuers carry body to shore after 49 boys die in boating accident

Rescuers are searching for victims of a boat capsized in northwest Pakistan. 

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Images of rescuers searching for victims Tuesday and of mourners on Monday at a funeral held for some of the children who died after a boat capsized in northwest Pakistan last Sunday.

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. Forty-nine boys and two adults died in the accident, according to the police.

(Source: AFP)