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Updated On: 01 October, 2009 07:53 AM IST | | Agencies
Tourists rushed to one side of the vessel to watch a herd of wild elephants, causing the boat to lose its balance and topple
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Tourists rushed to one side of the vessel to watch a herd of wild elephants, causing the boat to lose its balance and topple
A tourist boat carrying 76 people in the southern Indian state of Kerala capsized yesterday, killing at least 32 including two foreigners, a state minister said.
The boat overturned in the popular Thekkady Tiger reserve, 240 kilometres from Kerala state capital Thiruvananthapuram, when tourists rushed to one side of the vessel to catch a glimpse of a herd of wild elephants.
"Thirty-five bodies have now been recovered," said Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, Kerala minister for tourism and home affairs.
Two of the dead are foreigners but their nationalities were not immediately known, he said.
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