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TN boat
accident: Death toll rises to 15
Monday December 27, 2010 06:36:53 PM,
IANS
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Chennai:
The death toll in a boat accident off the Periapattinam village
coast in Tamil Nadu's Ramanathapuram district has risen to 15 with
the search and rescue team fishing out two more bodies Monday.
The dead in the accident Sunday include 10 women and five
children.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi Monday announced
compensation of Rs.100,000 each for the families of the dead.
According to officials, the bodies to two young girls were
recovered from the sea Monday.
On Sunday, 13 bodies were recovered from the sea after the boat in
which the vicitms were traveling to a nearby island capsized in
the sea.
"The accident took place around 8.30 a.m Sunday. The private boat
left the shore around 7.30 a.m. It carried around 30 persons and
was overloaded," a police officer told IANS.
The occupants were mostly Non-Resident Indians living in the Gulf.
According to police, more than 50 people took two boats to a
nearby island. While the women and children were in the boat that
capsized, the men were in the other boat.
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