Handwara : A 16-year-old boy was found dead in a rivulet in Sanzipora area in Mawer Handwara, resorts and officials said.

said that some passersby found a boy lying in a rivulet in Sanzipora area, following which they lifted him in unconscious condition, and took him to NTPHC Qalamabad.

The doctors however declared the boy dead on arrival at the hospital.

When contacted, Dr. Shahnawaz Ahmad Bhat at NTPHC, told that the boy was brought dead to the hospital. “It prima-facie looks, he has suffered cardiac arrest, which is likely the cause of him falling into the rivulet,” the doctor said.

More details awaited.