NDRF joins rescue ops to find six people missing in boat accident

The NDRF on Wednesday joined the rescue efforts to trace six people who went missing after a machine-operated country boat sank in the Brahmaputra river in Assam’s Barpeta district a day ago, officials said.

Barpeta Revenue Circle Field Officer Jyotirmoy Choudhury said that search operations by multiple agencies resumed this



morning.

So far, there is no news about the missing people. Experts are working very hard to find them,” he said, adding that the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) joined the rescue operations.

At least six people, including four children, went missing after the machine-operated country boat sank in the Brahmaputra river in Barpeta district on Tuesday afternoon.