KANPUR/LUCKNOW, May 7 -- At least six people, five of them children, were missing after a boat capsized in the Yamuna at Kutubpur Patia village in Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur district on Wednesday.

"Efforts are under way to locate the missing," said Mrigank Shekhar Pathak, the Hamirpur superintendent of police, who was at the scene 32 kilometres from the district headquarters.

Taking cognisance of the incident, chief minister Yogi Adityanath directed senior officials of the police and administration to rush to the site and ensure that relief and rescue operations are carried out on a war footing, said a press statement issued by state government on Wednesday.

The chief minister stated that those missing must be located as soon as possible...