Orissa boat tragedy: Two bodies recovered, 3 still missing (Lead)

Bhubaneswar, Nov 3

Bodies of two of the five pilgrims who went missing when an overloaded boat capsized Monday in the Mahanadi river in Orissa's Cuttack district Monday, were recovered Tuesday.

"We have recovered two dead bodies so far from the spot. We will continue the search operation for the remaining three pilgrims for a few hours more, then we will see," said Arbind Agrawal, the sub-collector of Athagarh in Cuttack district, about 25 km from state capital Bhubaneswar.

According to the officials, the chances of survival of the missing pilgrims are grim.

The boat capsized at Mancheswar ghat while ferrying pilgrims to Dhabaleswar temple, where there was a heavy rush as it was Kartika Purnima (full moon of Kartika month of Hindu calendar). More than 20 people were rescued Monday buy five could not be traces

Earlier Tuesday, the district administration took the help of international scuba diver Shabir Bux and his team to help in the search. However, the search operation failed to trace out other pilgrims who had drowned.

Last updated on Nov 3^rd, 2009 at 22:44 pm IST--IANS

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