Guwahati: A 10-year-old girl drowned after a passenger ferry capsized in Assam's Morigaon district on Thursday.
According to reports, the girl named Nisat Begum was returning from school on the boat when it turned turtle near Kaurhagi village.
However, locals successfully managed to rescue others but Nisat went missing.
Reportedly, her father identified as Habibur Rahman was also present on the boat when the mishap took place.
Most of the passengers on the boat were students of Kaurhagi primary school, who commute by these boats everyday.
Recently, on May 9, 2022, two teenagers drowned in the Towkak river at the Bhawanipur area near Sonari twon in Charaideo district.
Reportedly, Sanjay Sarkar and Rajat Das, along with four others, went to the Towkak river for bathing where their feet slipped and both the teenagers drowned in the river.
Sanjay Sarkar was a student of Haji Osimuddin Mission School, Sonari, and Rajat Das studies at Bhagawati Prasad Baruah Memorial HS School, Sonari.
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