Four people dead as house boat capsizes in chennai
Posted on: 26/Jan/2013 2:53:36 PM
Four tourists from Tamil Nadu drowned as the houseboat they were cruising tilted and capsized at Punnamada lake in chennai today.
The boat had 61 tourists and all but the four, including three women and a child, were rescued. They were rushed to a hospital where they were declare dead.The mishap happened close to the landing point where the tourists were being shifted from one boat to another. The boat tilted to one side before it partly got submerged into water.
Those who died had got trapped in the submerged part of the boat.The exact place in Tamil Nadu from where the tourists had come was yet to be ascertained.Punnamada lake is the hub of water tourism in Kerala where a large number of houseboats operate.
