Operations launched by NDRF and SDRF teams to pull out the car that plunged into Dikhow river at Dikhowmukh in Gaurisagar along with five members of a family continued for the third day. However they have failed to locate the car along with the five occupants as the possibility of rescuing anyone alive appears bleak.
#FLASH | Operations launched by NDRF and SDRF teams to retrieve car that plunged into Dikhow river along with five members of a family fail to yield any result; special Navy divers being flown in from Visakhapatnam will arrive in Jorhat at 4pm and assist operations.
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Meanwhile, a special team of Navy divers is being flown in from Visakhapatnam to assist the operations. The Navy team is expected to arrive in Jorhat at 4pm today and will head straight to Dikhowmukh and carry out operations to retrieve the car and look for possible survivors.
Five members of the family —Haren Bora, his mother Panou Bora, wife Phunu and daughters Chimpi and Munmi — are feared dead after their car veered off the embankment road and plunged into the river on Saturday night.
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A team of NDRF from Golaghat along with SDRF personnel resumed operations today (Sep 3) morning but failed to locate the car along with the occupants, more than 40 hours since the tragic accident took place.
