AGRA, Oct. 3 -- Three more bodies were recovered on Friday, taking the death toll to five, while the search was going on for seven others who were swept away in the Utangan river during Durga idol immersion in Khairagarh area on Thursday, police said.

All the victims were residents of Kusiarpur village in Mauja Dungarwala, Khairagarh, and had brought a Durga idol for immersion after the culmination of Navratri.

On Friday, paramilitary forces were called in to assist the rescue operation. A second unit of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was deployed, while divers from the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) and Etawah district joined the search.

Cultural and tourism minister Jaiveer Singh, who is the minister in-charge for A...