Five women labourers feared drowned in UP's Chandauli

VARANASI: Five women labourers were feared drowned, while 35 others succeeded in coming out of river Ganga after a boat overturned between Mauja and Dina areas under limits of Saiyyedraja police station in Chandauli district of Uttar Pradesh.
SP Chandauli, Hemant Kutiyal said that a boat carrying 40 labourers was crossing river Ganga to return home on Saturday evening.
On reaching midstream the boat overturned. Kutiyal said that 35 managed to swim out or got rescued., but five women were missing.
He said that apart from police and divers, teams of NDRF had been carrying out search operation even after dark.