Bodies of school girl and man recovered in Hooghly district

Bodies of a school girl and a 50-year-old man, who had gone missing in flood waters in Hooghly district, were found on Tuesday morning.

Disha Maity, 14, a Class VII student, had slipped into a canal in the inundated Dhanyagheri area of Khanakul on Monday evening. The NDRF started a search and her body was spotted on Tuesday around 200 meters from where she had gone missing.

Jiten Porel, 50, a marginal farmer from Hati village of Pursurah, had been traceless since Saturday. Villagers found his body in a paddy field on Tuesday morning after flood waters receded.