Nimatighat Boat Accident: Two Missing Passengers Yet to be Traced

GUWAHATI: It's been more than 36 hours since the Nimatighat boat accident took place, however, the rescue operation team is yet to track two missing passengers.

Meanwhile, rescue operations established contacts with 92 persons, of which 89 were rescued alive.

The missing persons have been identified as Jaan Baruah of Lakhimpur and Dr Bikramjit Baruah of Jorhat.

SDRF Team deployed: State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) of Jorhat, Golaghat, Garmur (Majuli) and Bokakhat are conducting search operations.

NDRF Team Deployed: 1st Bn. NDRF team stationed at Jorhat and 12th Bn. NDRF team from Sivasagar, Dhemaji and Itanagar are conducting search operations.

Resources used in Neamatighat Search operation:

Air Force, Jorhat station-1 helicopter

Indian Army Deep Divers- 8

Indian Army rescue boats-2

CRPF manpower deployed- 20

NDRF – 1 drone

NDRF rescuers – 4 teams (108 rescuers)

NDRF rescue boats-15

NDRF Deep Divers-8

SDRF and Fire & ES rescuers – 75

SDRF rescue boats -13

SDRF Deep Divers- 18

The incident is said to have taken place in Jorhat's Nimati Ghat, which is about 350 kilometres from Guwahati. Earlier a similar incident took place in North Guwahati in 2018 which resulted in several losses of lives.

Of the two boats, one was a government passenger ferry that belonged to the Inland Water Transport department and the other was a public boat. The government ferry was coming from Majuli while the other boat was moving in towards the opposite direction.

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