Authorities rushed to the site of the incident at around 11:30 pm (local time) after a person on a separate panga boat called 911 to report about victims in the water.
The Italian authorities said that the three arrested had taken the illegal immigrants on a boat from the Turkish city of Izmir to the Italian city of Calabria despite bad weather conditions.
Out of the six men who were reported missing after a boat capsized in Toderu village in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district on Sunday evening, one body has been fished out while intense rescue operations are undergoing to trace the remaining five bodies.
Pakistani newspaper reported that a total of 51 students were recovered while 5 students have been retrieved alive from the Tanda Dam lake in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Earlier in the wake of Sitrang alert ICG had launched its Dornier aircraft post landfall of cyclone to sanitize the area close to the coast off Odisha and West Bengal and to render assistance to the mariners affected by the cyclone. During the surveillance sortie, ICG Dornier aircraft sighte
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Dhubri (Assam), October 2 (ANI): The body of the missing Circle Officer in Assam's Dhubri boat incident was recovered on Sunday, 72 hours after the mishap.