Five people busy taking selfies at Nimtala ghat despite repeated high tide alerts from officials were swept away in the Hooghly on the night of October 10. Residents of the area managed to rescue two persons, while three remain missing.
“Three people were missing after being swept away in high tide of the Hooghly river in north Kolkata’s Nimtala ghat,” said an officer of North Port police station on Tuesday.
A group of five people, all residents of Beleghata area, were at Nimtala ghat on Monday night for the last rites of a relative, they said.
“Ignoring warnings of high tide by locals and officials, they were clicking selfies at the ghat. As the high tide struck around 9pm, they were swept away,” police said.
Divers have been deployed to search the missing.
Those rescued were admitted to a nearby hospital.