Twenty two are feared dead of the same family
TAMIL NADU: A boat capsized in a lake in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu twenty-two members of a single family are feared drowned, said police. The dead were all members of a single family. Only three boys were able to be rescued after the incident.
The boat, carrying 25 people, sank in Pulicat Lake near the state’s coast. The passengers were said to be picnickers who had hired the boat for a ride on the river.
Officials said the boat was overcrowded and not equipped with life vests.
Divers and rescue workers continued their search through the night, but have failed to recover any more bodies.
In 2009, a tourist boat carrying 76 people capsized in a lake in Kerala, killing at least 37 people.
At least 36 people died after an overloaded boat sank in the Ganges river in India’s Bihar state in October last year.
(contents-bbc)
