Q.6. Write a report with the help of given below points. 8 Date - 15th March. Nature of accident - a boat carrying 50 passengers capsized. Place-Dakshineswar to Bally. Casualties - 32 People feared drowned. Survivors - 18 persons swam ashore. Bodies recovered - 19 so far.
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Boat capsized at Dakshineswar to Bally
15 feared dead
(by News Correspondent)
15th March a horrific accident happened yesterday evening at Dakhsneswar to Bally as a boat carrying 20 people capsized in the Yangtze river. As per the records of three witnesses from the scene, the victims were on their way to their home village, situated on the opposite bank of Amtala Dakshineshwar . At 6pm, the people had boarded with the boatman. At 6:15pm, as soon as the boat had crossed midway, a boulder surfaced from the river and crashed against the hull on the starboard side of the boat. Among the ten on-lookers of the scene, four jumped into the river to save the victims. Among them, 32 could not be rescued. However, the four men were able to recover 18 bodies so far; of them, two were women and two children. As the local police have reported, rescue operations are working on this incident. The civic authorities are doing their utmost to pay reparations to the respective families of the victims. Also, the panchayat has announced that they will allot lifeguards on every banks for the protection of the people who commute via waterways.