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- Body of a five-year-old recovered on Sunday, taking the toll to 12 in the Jabalpur cruise boat accident.
- Over 200 rescuers, including Army divers and disaster response teams, continue search operations for one missing person.
The body of a five-year-old boy was found in Bargi Dam in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur district on Sunday morning, pushing the death toll in the cruise boat tragedy to 12, while the search for one person still unaccounted for continued, police said.
The vessel, nearly two decades old and run by the state tourism department, overturned after being caught in a storm on Thursday evening.
"The body of Mayuram (5) has been fished out of the dam. Search is underway for Kamraj (aged around 50), an employee of the Ordnance Factory in Khamaria," Bargi policestation house officer (SHO) Neelesh Dohare told PTI.
MP Bargi Dam boat tragedy: Death toll rises to nine, six still missing
BY Outlook News Desk |
