Nabadwip boat tragedy: Mum, daughter feared drowned, fishermen rescue 10 others

Nabadwip boat tragedy: Mum, daughter feared drowned, fishermen rescue 10 others

Hummingbird News Desk

KRISHNAGAR, 30 APRIL: A 24-year-old mother and one and half-year-old daughter are feared drowned after they went missing when the country boat they were in with other family members and relatives capsized in the Bhagirathi river near Rajbongshi Para under Nabadwip municipal area in Nadia at around 12 noon today.

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The incident occurred when 12 members of a wedding party including three children were trying to cross Bhagirathi river to reach Mayapur from Rajbongshi Ghat. When the boat reached the middle stream of the river, it began to shake and it finally overturned.

The missing have been identified as Puja Muhuri (24) and her daughter Sayantika of Shyamnagar in North 24 Parganas.

According to the police officials, Puja along with her husband and daughter came to attend a wedding ceremony of Bharatpur Rajbongshi at 21 number ward of Nabadwip municipality. Today, they along with other relatives of the wedding party were trying to cross the Bhagirathi river to reach Mayapur. But, in the middle stream of the river, the country boat they were in overturned.

Soon after the boat capsized, fishermen who were in their motor boats at nearby places rushed to the site to rescue them. As two women were swimming while holding their children, the fishermen first rescued the children and they rescued one after another who were floating after holding the edges of the motor boats. Finally, the fishermen rescued 10 persons including two children but Puja and her daughter went missing, a local resident said.

Later, police and municipal authorities reached the site and they arranged divers to conduct a search operation for the missing woman and her daughter. Two teams of the Disaster Management Department reached the spot and they conducted a search operation till this evening, but they could not find them.

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