3 dead, 7 missing as boat carrying 18 from Bihar to Jharkhand capsizes in Ganga

Three people, including a one-year-old child, were drowned to death and seven others are reported to be missing after a small country boat carrying 18 people from Bihar’s Katihar to Jharkhand’s Sahebganj capsized in River Ganga on Sunday morning, officials said, adding that eight people managed to swim to safety.

A team of state disaster response force (SDRF) and local divers have been pressed into service to rescue the missing people. “Right now, we can’t say anything, but the death toll is likely to go up as search operation has not yet yielded any result,” said an officer monitoring the rescue operation.