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Two bodies recovered, search on for three more missing persons

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Press Trust of India Ara(Bhojpur)
Last Updated : Apr 27 2014 | 1:40 PM IST
The National Disaster Rescue Force (NRPF) today recovered two bodies from the river Ganga in Bihar's Bhojpur district two days after a boat tragedy in which five people had gone missing, a police officer said.
A body that of a girl has been identified as Renu Kumari (8), while efforts were on to find out identity of the other body, the Superintendent of Police (SP) Kim said.
The search operation was on to recover bodies of three more people missing in the boat tragedy, the SP said.
A boat carrying around 60 people, all natives of Keotia village, had capsized in the river Ganga near Salempur ghat under Dhoba police outpost while they were going to the other side of the river for tonsure ceremony of a boy two days ago, the SP said.

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First Published: Apr 27 2014 | 1:40 PM IST

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