AGRA, April 17 -- A week-long search for six missing devotees ended on Thursday with the recovery of the last body, identified as Pankaj Malhotra, one of the 38 devotees from Ludhiana who were aboard the boat that capsized on April 10 near Kesi ghat of Vrindavan. With this recovery, the death toll in the Vrindavan boat tragedy rose to 16, said police.

Superintendent of police (Rural) Suresh Chandra Rawat said on Thursday that the body of the last missing devotee, Pankaj Malhotra (40), was found near the Devraha Baba Ashram ghat on the Yamuna.

"The body was sent for post mortem. The family members arrived and later took it back to Ludhiana in Punjab. With this, the week-long search operation carried out by NDRF, SDRF, flood PAC team, and...