Madhya Pradesh: Seven people missing as a boat carrying devotees capsizes

Seven people including three women went missing after a boat carrying devotees capsized at Mata Tila Dam near Khaniyadhana police station in Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday the ANI reportedThe boat was ferrying devotees and it capsized at Mata Tila Dam near Khaniyadhana police station an official saidAll of the seven devotees including three women are missing and searches were underway to trace them an official informed reported ANIAman Singh Rathore Superintendent of Police Shivpuri stated that eight people have come out safely The devotees were heading towards Siddh Baba temple when the incident took placeThe incident occurred when a boat was carrying 15 people to a temple located on the island in Matatila Dam when water gushed in said Pichhores Sub Divisional Officer of Police SDOP Prashant Sharma as per the PTIHe said eight persons were rescued with the help of villagers while three women aged 35 to 55 years and four children aged seven to 15 years went missing in waters after the boat capsizedA search operation was launched involving divers to trace the missing personsVillagers said 15 people from Rajavan village were on board the boat They were headed to Siddha Baba temple located on the island in the middle of the damAccording to the PTI the eyewitnesses said a woman in the boat first noticed water gushing into the boat which sank the news agency reportedUP Teen drowns in Yamuna river in Etawah body recovered after 30hour searchThe body of a 14yearold boy who drowned while bathing in the Yamuna was recovered after a 30hourlong search operation here police said on Monday the PTI reportedThe incident occurred on Sunday afternoon near the Yamuna River bridge on the EtawahGwalior road under the jurisdiction of the Badpura police station Station House Officer SHO Ganesh Shankar Dwivedi said as per the PTIKrishna 14 son of Dinesh Kumar and a resident of Rajput Colony had gone to the river with his friend Vivek to bathe While swimming Krishna was swept away by the strong current police saidA rescue operation was launched with the help of local divers and boatmen but the boy could not be foundOn Monday a team of PAC battalion divers continued the search operation and Krishnas body was recovered in the evening police saidThe body has been sent for a postmortem examination and further legal proceedings are underway officials addedWith PTI and ANI inputs