Body of Missing Pulwama Boy Retrieved After 5 days
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Younus Rashid
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- 01 May 2026
CM Omar Abdullah expresses grief
Pulwama, May 1: In a heartbreaking end to a six-day-long search, the body of five-year-old Mohammed Hanzala, who had slipped into the Rambiara stream near Dubjan in Shopian, was recovered on Friday morning after relentless efforts by rescue teams and local volunteers.
Hanzala, son of Nigar Ahmad of Tiken Batpora in Pulwama, had fallen into the fast-flowing stream on April 26 while accompanying his father. Since then, teams from SDRF, police, and local volunteers had been combing the river stretch, battling strong currents and difficult terrain, but without success.
The breakthrough came on the sixth day when a local resident, Ashiq Ahmad Wani, along with his father Farooq Ahmad Wani and others, continued the search downstream, nearly four kilometres from the incident site.
Farooq Ahmad said the body was lodged beneath a stone in the middle of the river where the current was particularly strong. “I had cautioned my son not to move into the deeper current, but he went ahead. When he sensed something unusual under the water, I too stepped in despite the risk. Together, we managed to bring the body out,” he said.
Ashiq Ahmad, who first located the body, said he had been searching from one stone to another in the stream, suspecting the child may have been trapped. “The water level and speed were very high. Without any safety gear, I checked beneath a stone and felt the child’s head. The body was stuck halfway under it,” he said, adding that they retrieved it around 10 am with the help of others.
The tragic incident has sent shockwaves across the Valley, where many had been praying for the child’s safe return. The prolonged search had kept hope alive, even as each passing day made the chances slimmer.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expressed grief over the incident. “ Deeply shocked & saddened by the tragic death of young Mohammed Hanzala from Tikken in Pulwama. As the search for the young boy stretched in to the sixth day hope was running out but it’s still been a terrible shock when the unthinkable was confirmed.
I join the tens of thousands of Kashmiris in grief at Hanzala’s death. May Allah grant him highest place in Jannat & may his family find strength to bear this unimaginable loss,” he said in a post on X.
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