Three bodies were recovered from the houseboats gutted in a blaze in the Dal Lake in Jammu and <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/Kashmir-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Kashmir</a>`s capital city <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/Srinagar-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Srinagar</a> on Saturday, officials said.
The charred bodies were recovered in the early hours of Saturday near ghat number nine, the officials said.
They said the deceased`s identification was being ascertained. The deceased included a man and a woman, while the third victim`s gender could not be ascertained so far.
The fire broke out in the tourist hub of the Dal Lake early Saturday, destroying property worth crores of rupees, officials said.
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The cause of the fire, which consumed five houseboats and an equal number of huts attached to them, was not immediately known.&nbsp;
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