Assam boat capsize: 2 dead, 2 missing, not more, says minister

Guwahati | Thursday | 6th September, 2018

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GUWAHATI: A day after a boat capsized in the Brahmaputra , Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday that two bodies had been found and not three as reported earlier. We have recovered two bodies," Sarma said. Kamrup district Deputy Commissioner Kamal Kumar Baishya had earlier said the boat, carrying about 36 passengers, capsized in the river after it hit a rock near north Guwahati. "We have missing reports of two persons (not 11 as reported earlier). Army helicopters have been pressed into service to locate any floating bodies in the river..