Assam: 5 missing bodies recovered from Dikhow river

The rescue teams on Wednesday recovered the drowned car from the river and the decomposed bodies of the five members of a Guwahati-based family were found inside the car.

The car was spotted in the river around 250 metres away from the spot where the car was drowned.

The rescue teams brought out the bodies from inside the car.

Earlier, a 8-member diving team with equipments from the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam had reached Sivasagar town on Sept 3 to help in the search and rescue operation.

Apart from the Indian Navy’s diver team, Indian army, SDRF and NDRF teams were also engaged in search operations.

“Firstly, we haven’t found nothing during diving. Later, we had used our magnet process and searching in the river by using magnet and found some objects. Finally, we had recovered the car,” a SDRF diver said.

Five members of a family went missing after a Swift Dzire car, in which they were travelling, plunged into Dikhow river on Sept 1.

The incident took place at Dikhowmukh area near Gaurisagar in the upper Assam’s district when the family was travelling from Guwahati to Sivasagar and their speeding car lost its control and fell into Dikhow river.

The five people have been identified as Haren Bora, his mother Phunu Bora, wife Ponou Bora and two daughters Simpi Bora and Munmi Bora.

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)