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A person reportedly got drowned at Hel River under Fakiragram police station in Kokrajhar district of Assam.

The incident took place at Singimari late Monday evening.

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The person identified as one Baydya Urao (55) of Singimari village and he was missing at Bechimari river under Fakiragram police station in Kokrajhar.

Later villagers and police carried out search operation to recovered Urao’s body but could not find it till late Monday night.

Later on Tuesday, personnel from NDRF, SDRF and police along with local people jointly carried out a search operation.

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At around 9:30 am, Urao’s body was recovered at Bechimari river.

Meanwhile, police have taken the body into their custody and made arrangements to send the body for post mortem.

Investigations are on into the whole incident.

 

Rinoy Basumatary is Northeast Now Correspondent in Kokrajhar. He can be reached at: [email protected]

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