A navy boat was carrying nearly 40 students from the Burning Candle High School of Handwara town in Kupwara district for a ride when capsized in the Wullar lake at Watlab, 75 km from Srinagar.

Images: An Indian Kashmiri Muslim woman mourns the death of her children during the funeral of nine of the 22 schoolchildren who died when an Indian navy boat carrying them capsized the day before on the Wular Lake, 70 kms north of Srinagar, in Handwara, 31 May 2006. Divers pulled five more bodies from a lake in Indian Kashmir taking to 22 the number who died when a Indian navy boat carrying schoolchildren capsized, the army said. The seven to 14-year-olds were having a ride in the motorboat when it sank 30 May on the Wular Lake.
Photographs: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images

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