Bodies of six more tourists were pulled out from the Godavari river in Andhra Pradesh's East Godavari district on Wednesday, taking the death toll in Sunday's ghastly boat tragedy to 34.
Rescue workers continue search operations in the swollen river for 12 missing persons.
The state government said that deep divers from the Indian Navy, two teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), three teams of State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and personnel from fire services were participating in the search operations, backed by two helicopters from Navy and one from Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC).
Officials said while five bodies were retrieved from Devipatnam near the accident site, another body was found the downstream.
A private tourist boat, with 73 persons, including eight crew members, capsized near Kuchuluru village on Sunday afternoon while on its way to picturesque Papikonda hills.
Officials said 27 people were rescued by local villagers. Twelve bodies were found on Sunday and Monday while 16 bodies were pulled out of the river on Tuesday.
In a parallel development, the state government also ordered for a detailed magisterial probe into the incident.
Stating that an initial report had been submitted by Director of Ports, Kakinada, a Government Order stated, "The government hereby directs the Collector and District Magistrate, East Godavari, to cause a magisterial enquiry by the Joint Collector and Additional District Magistrate, East Godavari on all failures, lapses and material incidental to the accident and submit the magisterial enquiry report within 60 days from the date of issue of order."
Meanwhile, personnel from Uttarakhand's disaster management department traced the boat with the help of their sonar equipment. According to the deep divers, the boat is at a depth of 70-80 meters.
IANS inputs