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Guwahati, Sep 5 : After 100-hour long search and rescue operations, the Indian Navy’s deep-sea divers, Indian army, the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams had finally recovered the car and bodies of five members of a family, who went missing after their Swift Dzire car plunged into Dikhow river in upper Assam’s Sivasagar district on September 1 evening.
The rescue teams on Wednesday had recovered the drowned car from the river and the decomposed bodies of the five members of a Guwahati-based family were found inside the car.
The car was spotted in the river around 250 metres away from the spot where the car drowned.
The rescue teams had brought out the bodies inside the car.
Earlier, a 8-member diving team with equipments from the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam had reached in Sivasagar town on September 3 to help in the search and rescue operation.
Apart from the Indian Navy’s diver team, Indian army, SDRF and NDRF teams were also engaged in search operations.
“Firstly, we haven’t found nothing during diving. Later, we had used our magnet process and searching in the river by using magnet and found some objects. Finally, we had recovered the car,” a SDRF diver said.
Five members of a family went missing after a Swift Dzire car where they were travelled plunged into Dikhow river on September 1 evening.
The incident took place at Dikhowmukh area near Gaurisagar in the upper Assam’s district when the family was travelling from Guwahati to Sivasagar and their speeding car lost its control and fell into Dikhow river.
The five people have been identified as Haren Bora, his mother Phunu Bora, wife Ponou Bora and two daughters Simpi Bora and Munmi Bora.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
