Jammu, Oct 1: Body of a woman washed away in flashfloods alongside her daughter in Rajouri has been recovered at Nowshera area on Friday afternoon, officials said.

Additional SP Rajouri Vivek Shekhar Sharma told that Gulzar Bi (60) wife of Mohammad Akbar was recovered after hours of intense searches along the area. The body of another person Maqsooda Begum (40), who happens to be the daughter of elderly deceased woman, is however still missing and efforts are on to locate her, the official said.

Pertinent to mention here that the mother-daughter duo, as per officials, was washed away in flash floods while working in their fields at Chatyari area of Rajouri district during the intervening night of September 30 and October 1.

(GNS)