DOTI: A 13-year-old boy has gone missing while swimming in the Seti River on Friday morning.

According to District Police Office, Doti, Arjun Khadayat, the son of Man Bahadur Khadayat of Adarsha-6 Girichaur has disappeared in the flooding Seti river.

The police informed the search operation is going on in the area.

Seti River has already claimed 5 lives in a month in this monsoon.

The locals point out that the unpredictable rain-flood claims many lives every year when the youths and children underestimate its destructive nature.