Small boat carrying school students capsizes, no casualty reported in Nagaon district

A CORRESPONDENT

NAGAON: Hundreds of school students had a narrow escape from a possible tragic incident on Wednesday after a local small boat carrying the students capsized in a stream of the mighty Brahmaputra near Sutirpar of the greater Juria in the Nagaon district. Sources claimed that the small boat was carrying the students towards a riverine local school at Sutirpar and it capsized in the middle of the stream.

Meanwhile, some locals working there immediately rushed to the spot and were able to rescue all the occupants of the boat, including the students, sources said, adding further that some female students were immediately admitted to local hospital and they were still under treatment till the time of filing of this report. The boat capsized because it was allegedly overloaded and the owner did not pay heed to it, sources said.

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