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Boat with 200 onboard capsizes in Chaygaon

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Assam: An overcrowded mechanised boat carrying nearly 200 people  on Monday capsized in River Kolohi in Assam’s Kamrup district. Around 30 people were missing after the boat capsized.
The engine of the boat, carrying the passengers from Chaygaon to Champupara to attend a boat race, failed to function in the middle of the river and hit against the post of a bridge causing it to flip.
Kamrup (Rural) Deputy Commissioner Vinod Kumar Seshan said, “The boat overturned with the passengers falling into the river, which was in spate.”
The local residents have begun rescue operations and NDRF and SDRF personnel have rushed to the spot.
Seshan, however, said many may have swam to safety to the other bank of the rive, but exact reports were yet to come in.
He further said the exact number of passengers travelling in the boat was yet to be ascertained and the local people have only said it was overcrowded and gussed it to be around 200.
Senior police and civil officials have rushed to the spot and the hospital authorities nearby have been alerted.
The rescue operation has been stopped as of now to be resumed on Tuesday. (PTI)

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