Kathmandu: At least three persons died on Saturday and several others went missing when a boat, with about 50 passengers on board, capsized in the swollen Bagmati River in central Nepal.
Six people were rescued from the accident site situated some 250 km south of Kathmandu, according to the police.
Security personnel and locals have launched a search operation for the missing.
Three dead women have been identified as Apsana Khatun, 14, Rajima Khatun, 20 and Nisrat Khatun, 37, of Laxmipur village in Sarlahi district. (PTI)
Small plane with 4 on board missing
Jakarta: Searchers were hunting on Saturday for a small plane missing on Borneo island with an Australian and three other people on board, Indonesian officials said.
Two rescue helicopters were flying close to the route the Piper PA-31 Navajo aircraft was taking before it lost contact with authorities last morning minutes after takeoff from an airport in the city of Samarinda on Borneo, said the airport’s chief, Rajoki Aritonang. Aritonang said that satellite images showed the aircraft’s latest position on last afternoon was within the Kutai National Park, about 30 kilometers east of Bontang, a mining town, and that the plane was running critically low on fuel. The plane was chartered by Elliott Geophysics International, a Perth, Australia-based company, and failed to return from a surveying mission in Bontang. (AP)
