Kota Boat Capsize Tragedy: Bodies of Four Youths Recovered 18 Hours After Durga Idol Immersion

Police said that the bodies of all four youth who were missing after a boat capsized as Durga idol was immersed in the Kotri canal in the city of Kota, Rajasthan, were retrieved from the canal on Wednesday, around 18 hours after the incident.

Seven people were swept away from the boat when it capsized around 5.30pm on Tuesday near the Steel Bridge.The boat capsized around 5.30pm Tuesday near the Steel Bridge, sweeping away seven people. Three — an unidentified woman, Deepak and boatman Suresh — made it to the safety.

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Vikas Verma alias Suman (22), cousins Eshu (19) and Rahul (18) Joshi, and Suraj Singh (22) were identified as the missing youths. Vikas Malhotra, who was the other district magistrate, said that all four bodies had been retrieved.

Most of the search to collect the bodies was completed by teams of NDRF and SDRF personnel along with civil defence personnel and local divers until about 11.30pm on Tuesday night. But at night, the operation was to be postponed as nobody could be seen, and no sign of the missing youths was found.

Wednesday, the search for the plane began again at 5.30am. In the first search, Suraj and Vikas were found around 100 metres downstream from the accident site. The teams scoured various sections of the canal and then found the bodies of Eshu and Rahul a few hours later.

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The dead bodies were shifted to Maharao Bhim Singh (MBS) Hospital, Kota for post mortem examination by police. The procedures shall be completed by the presence of the bodies and after completion, the bodies shall be handed over to the families.

Tuesday, the day of the accident, water had been flowing into the canal.

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