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April 30th, 2012 
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Rescue workers rushed to the site and were struggling to find survivors, but
darkness and bad weather were hampering rescue efforts.
“I could see people being swept away as the river current was very strong,”
Rahul Karmakar, who witnessed the sinking, told AFP.
Dhubri is some 300 kilometres (186 miles) from Guwahati, Assam’s largest city.
Karmakar said there were women and children among those on board the ferry,
which was carrying farmers, fishermen and other local people.
Boats are a common form of transport in India’s remote rural regions and
accidents are common due to lax safety standards and overloading.
In one of the last major ferry disasters in India, at least 79 Muslim pilgrims
drowned when an overcrowded boat sank in the eastern state of West Bengal in
eastern India.
Assam state chief minister Tarun Gogoi said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh had telephoned him and promised to rush disaster response units from
the national capital, New Delhi, and other locations.
“Army, Border Security Force and other rescue teams with mechanised boats
have moved to the site but nightfall and bad weather are hampering rescue
efforts,” Gogoi told AFP.
Singh said in a statement that he was “shocked and grieved to know about
the loss of lives” and called it a “tragedy.”
He said he had given instructions “for all possible assistance to the
government of Assam in relief operations and also for assistance from the
Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund to the families of the deceased.”
Source: AFP
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