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Boat mishap: Three bodies found

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Press Trust of India Purulia (WB)
Bodies of three members of a family were fished out today and a search is on for the fourth person who went missing after their boat overturned in Damodar River here.

District Magistrate Ghulam Ali Ansari said the three dead were in the age group of 19 to 39 years.

The boat disaster took place when a group of 12 people were on their way to a village in neighbouring Jharkhand from Raghunathpur block last night.

Police said eight of them swam ashore.

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First Published: Mar 02 2013 | 3:55 PM IST

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