Several persons went missing and are now feared dead after a boat carrying flood victims capsized in the swollen Kosi in Bihar's Madhepura district during a rescue mission on Friday.
An ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh, including an immediate relief of Rs 50,000, was announced by the collector for the kin of the deceased.
"Eight bodies have been fished out while three to four persons are still missing and feared drowned," officials said.
Police and PAC personnel have fished out 22 bodies so far while 10 others have been rescued, he said. A search was on to trace others.
A survivor has claimed that the incident occurred after the boat hit a rocky patch in the Prongs Reef Lighthouse area in sea, which is the southernmost tip of Mumbai.
Around 18 of the 40 people went missing on Tuesday after a boat carrying them capsized on the Ganga River at Betawar ghat near Shooltankeshwar area in Varanasi, the police said.
At least five persons are feared drowned after a boat in which they were crossing Saryu River in Bahraich capsized, police said on Tuesday.
The boat, with about 80 passengers onboard, mostly tourists from outside Kerala, sank after cruising five km from the boarding point from where it had set out around 4 pm.
"So far, we have fished out 28 bodies and 45 people have been rescued while the search for more is still on," District Magistrate S P Dixit told PTI over telephone.
Seven persons went missing on Friday evening after a boat carrying 22 persons on board capsized on the Champavati river, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, in Bongaigaon district of western Assam.
Even as efforts to search the bodies with the help of expert divers and local fishermen are on, the ill-fated boat floated about 3 km away from the accident spot on Saturday morning, officials said.
Twenty-two persons were killed on Sunday after the boat in which they went on a pleasure trip capsized in Pulicat Lake, about 60 km from Chennai, police said.
National Disaster Response Force teams and Krishna district authorities have launched a massive search and rescue operation to trace the missing people.
The accident occurred when officials and some others were on their way in four boats to the site of the proposed memorial of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, where work was to begin on Wednesday.
The victims were coming from Murrvakonda village in Kunrool district to participate in a local festival at Singotam when the mishap occured.
Following a directive from the Union ministry of home affairs, personnel from the Jammu and Kashmir State Disaster Response Force conducted a mock drill at the Dal Lake in Srinagar on Tuesday, May 6, 2025.
The boat, whose capacity was 100 people, was overloaded.
The exact number of passengers on board the passenger boat, said to be over three-decades old, at the time of the mishap is yet to be ascertained.
'In my career, I have never witnessed such an incident'
A boat carrying mostly school children capsized in the Jhelum river on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday, leaving six people dead, officials said.
A ferry carrying over 100 passengers capsized after being hit by a Navy craft off the Gateway of India in Mumbai, killing 13 people, including Navy personnel and two contractual naval employees. The ferry, 'Neel Kamal,' had a capacity of 90 passengers but was carrying over 100 people at the time of the accident. A case has been registered against the Navy craft driver at the Colaba police station. The mangled ferry has been taken to 'Bhaucha Dhakka' in south Mumbai.
Two days after a fatal boat mishap had claimed 22 lives in the north Kerala district of Malappuram, murder charge has been slapped against the owner of the vessel who was caught from nearby Kozhikode, the police said on Tuesday.
With the recovery of three more bodies, the death toll in the boat mishap in the swollen Kosi river in Supaul district has climbed to 28, a senior official said on Thursday.
Sports Minister V Abdurahiman said 20 deaths were confirmed on the basis of information from various hospitals where those pulled out from the water and inside the boat were admitted.
Two dozen students and four teachers were on a picnic and taking a boat ride in the Harni lake when the tragedy occurred in the afternoon, they said.
The Tanur police said a case was registered on Sunday itself against the owner of the boat, which reportedly did not have a licence to function.
A day after 12 students and two teachers were killed in a boat accident in Harni lake on the outskirts of Vadodara city in Gujarat, three persons, including a manager of a contractor, have been arrested, said a police official on Friday.
At least 54 people went missing when an overloaded boat carrying 110 Bangladeshis and Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to Malaysia sank today in the Bay of Bengal, the second such incident in eight days.
With the recovery of six more bodies, the toll in the boat mishap in Hirakud reservoir in Sambalpur district, Odisha, on Monday rose to 17.
'When we reached there only a small portion of the boat was above water and people were desperately clinging on to it.'
British yacht-racing champion Andrew 'Bart' Simpson, who won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, was killed on Thursday when his vessel capsized in San Francisco Bay during training for the America's Cup, his team said.
The court said the accident happened as a result of "the deadly cocktail of callousness, greed and official apathy."
The SDMA said the ill-fated private boat was carrying 73 passengers, including eight crew.
At least 164 people have been feared killed after a wooden boat capsized off the coast of Nigeria. The boat conveying 166 passengers capsized nearly 40 nautical miles off the Nigerian coast on Tuesday.
Some of the rescued children said at least 50 students were in the capsized boat.
According to sources in the Inspectorate of Boats at Alappuzha, there are about 2,000 boats operating at tourist centres in Kerala and half of them do not have proper licences.
State Disaster Management Department Principal Secretary Vyasji said in Patna that the boat, with more than 65 passengers on board, capsized near Ghoria Ghat while sailing to Bhagwanpur from Ranha village.
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