GUWAHATI: Several passengers have remained missing when a motorboat engine got immobilised on Beki River at Korakul in Kalgachia in Barpeta district of Assam and the boat collided with a post of a bridge on Monday afternoon. Eleven passengers could be rescued while rest of the passengers remained missing.
Reports said there were many more passengers abroad while the boat was travelling from Baghbor to Milijuli. The people were going to enjoy a boat race.
In another boat mishap that occurred at Rakhaldubi in Goalpara district on Monday. Ten of the passengers were rescued while an eighteen-month old child went missing after the mishap, an official source said.