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boat capsizes off Karachi  PTI Mar 3, 2008, 05.00pm IST
KARACHI: Seven members of a family were drowned when their boat
capsized off the Karachi coastline, a senior Pakistani Navy
official said in Karachi on Monday.  The mishap happened on
Sunday when the boat, carrying 26 picnickers and two crew
members, capsized near Ibrahim Hyderi fishing village in the
Arabian Sea.  While five bodies were fished out on Sunday, the
divers had recovered two more bodies from the sea on Monday,
Naval Air Commodore Khalid Farooq Chishti said.  "We had pulled
out five bodies on Sunday. The death toll is now seven. It is a
big tragedy," Chishti said.  "We managed to rescue some 20 other
people," he said, adding that one person was still missing and
the search is on.  As many as six boats of Pakistan Air Force
(PAF) and an equal number of divers of Navy took part in the
search and rescue operations.