At least two bodies were found as the search operation continued on Friday morning for the people who went missing in the boat capsize in the Bagmati River in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district.
Speaking to PTI, District Magistrate Pranav Kumar said the bodies of a 40-year-old man and a four-year-old child have been recovered from the river. "Searches are underway to trace the remaining missing persons," he said.
Boat had around 30 people
Eleven people, mostly school-going children and women, went missing after a boat with around 30 people capsized near Madhur Patti ghat of Bagmati river on Thursday morning when it was on the way to Bhattgama ghat on the opposite side, he said.
Twenty children were rescued soon after the accident, he added. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is working along with the SDRF in search of the remaining nine missing persons.
"District officials are now going door-to-door in the neighbourhoods near the ghat to check if any children are missing," Kumar said. A team of doctors is also camping near the ghat, and a facility for conducting post-mortem examinations has been set up there, he said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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