The accident occurred on September 2 in Tashkent region’s Bostanlyk district, when a family of five — the father, his wife, their daughter and two sons — rented a boat to tour the Charvak Reservoir near Burchmulla, accompanied by the boat driver.
The boat stopped so the family could take photographs, but one of the sons entered the water without a life jacket and began to drown after his leg cramped, prompting his older brother and father to jump in to help, while the boat driver also tried to reach them but was unable to do so, and all three men drowned.
The body of the younger son was recovered on September 9, followed by the recovery of his older brother’s and father’s bodies by divers on September 10, the ministry said in a statement.
