KOLKATA: Rescue workers battled heavy rains as they searched for survivors of a boat that capsized in West Bengal yesterday, killing at least two people with 25 others still missing, officials said.
The overcrowded boat was carrying more than 45 people as well as livestock when it overturned, a minister said. “At least two people died and 25 are missing after the ferry capsized in the Ganges,” Sabitri Mitra, the minister who is overseeing the rescue operation said.
“A total of 19 people, including a child, have so far been rescued.”
Workers are trying to haul up the wooden boat which overturned in strong winds near Malda district, 270km north of Kolkata.
AFP
