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Guwahati, Sep 6 : Indian army and the teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) are engaged in search and rescue operations in Brahmaputra river in Guwahati as many people are still missing following the boat capsized incident.
Three people including two college girl students died and many are missing after an overloaded country made single-engine private boat, locally called as ‘bhutbhuti’ capsized in Brahmaputra river near Ashwaklanta Temple in North Guwahati on Wednesday.
The boat carrying 36 passengers plied from Fancy Bazar area in Guwahati to North Guwahati on the other side of the mighty river and was capsized after hitting a concrete piller, while it was about 200 meter away from its destination
Rescue teams had already recovered three bodies including two college girl students and safely rescued another 12 persons from the river.
Apart from it, 12 others swam and reached at the safer places after the boat capsized.
On Thursday, Indian army and the teams of NDRF, SDRF resumed search and rescue operation in the river.
Some local people have also been pitched in to help the rescue teams.
On the other hand, police had arrested two divers of the boat.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
