An overloaded boat carrying dozens of passengers capsized in northern India, killing three people, including one child, while another 17 were missing and feared dead, a senior police official in Uttar Pradesh state said on Friday.
Rescue workers were still scouring the rain-swollen waters of the Yamuna river for survivors almost 24 hours after the calamity struck on Thursday, but prospects of finding anyone else alive were bleak, officials said.
The bodies of two women and one child were recovered in the rescue operation being handled by the police force, local divers and state disaster relief force, according to officials.
Fifteen passengers were reportedly rescued in the overcrowded boat, which had 30 people aboard.
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