RAJAHMUNDRY: The wobbly boat rammed into the underconstruction bridge in Vruddha Goutami department of Godavari at Pasuvullanka village in East Godavari district on Saturday night time.
The bridge used to be being built to hyperlink two Lanka villages in Vrudha Goutami department of Godavari. The tragedy web page is 5 km from the ocean mouth.
East Godavari collector mentioned that one spherical of seek operation used to be completed as much as Yanam, but no person used to be discovered. SDRF and NDRF teams had been pressed into service and they're going to begin seek operations past due on Saturday evening or Sunday morning once the waters relax.
The river is in spate after heavy rains in each Godavari districts over the last few days. Second Saturday is a general holiday for colleges, but those colleges were open this Saturday to make amends for vacations declared previous in June through the AP education division due to heat wavelike stipulations.
Incidentally, the boat did not have a valid licence from the AP Ports division.
“As consistent with our data, the boat which capsized within the Godavari on Saturday isn't registered with us,” Okay Sridharma Sastha, port officer, AP Ports, told TOI.
This incident comes inside of two months of a identical boat capsize that befell within the Godavari additional upstream close to Devipatnam mandal in East Godavari district on May 15, wherein no less than 20 folks were killed.
Incidentally, on the similar day three years in the past, July 14, 2015, 29 individuals were killed and 60 injured in a stampede at the Godavari Pushkaralu in East Godavari.
Apart from the collector, East Godavari SP Vishal Gunni also reached the spot.AP deputy leader minister N Chinarajappa also visited the web page of the mishap. Meanwhile, leader minister Chandrababu Naidu directed district officials to step up the rescue operations.
While 26 passengers were rescued, six folks were lacking. Most passengers were schoolchildren beneath 15 years of age and two of the rescued were hospitalised.
The bridge used to be being built to hyperlink two Lanka villages in Vrudha Goutami department of Godavari. The tragedy web page is 5 km from the ocean mouth.
East Godavari collector mentioned that one spherical of seek operation used to be completed as much as Yanam, but no person used to be discovered. SDRF and NDRF teams had been pressed into service and they're going to begin seek operations past due on Saturday evening or Sunday morning once the waters relax.
The river is in spate after heavy rains in each Godavari districts over the last few days. Second Saturday is a general holiday for colleges, but those colleges were open this Saturday to make amends for vacations declared previous in June through the AP education division due to heat wavelike stipulations.
Incidentally, the boat did not have a valid licence from the AP Ports division.
“As consistent with our data, the boat which capsized within the Godavari on Saturday isn't registered with us,” Okay Sridharma Sastha, port officer, AP Ports, told TOI.
This incident comes inside of two months of a identical boat capsize that befell within the Godavari additional upstream close to Devipatnam mandal in East Godavari district on May 15, wherein no less than 20 folks were killed.
Incidentally, on the similar day three years in the past, July 14, 2015, 29 individuals were killed and 60 injured in a stampede at the Godavari Pushkaralu in East Godavari.
Apart from the collector, East Godavari SP Vishal Gunni also reached the spot.AP deputy leader minister N Chinarajappa also visited the web page of the mishap. Meanwhile, leader minister Chandrababu Naidu directed district officials to step up the rescue operations.
While 26 passengers were rescued, six folks were lacking. Most passengers were schoolchildren beneath 15 years of age and two of the rescued were hospitalised.
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