Mother jumps into river Barak with her 2-year-old in Annapurna ghat; SDRF aborts mission due to darkness

In a tragic turn of affairs, a woman jumped into the river along with her child. As per available information, the woman is identified as Soma Rani Namasudra, wife of Sujit Namasudra.

As per the locals of Annapurna Ghat area, they saw a woman walking towards the ghat with her child at around 9:00 pm. Before the locals could react, she walked through the stairs and jumped into the water.

Soma Rani Namasudra is a resident of Itkhola Silchar. Tarapur Police Town Outpost was informed about the incident and the SDRF had launched a search and rescue operation. After a while, due to the darkness, they had to abort the mission.

In charge of Tarapur Town Outpost informed Barak Bulletin that he is looking into the matter. “The search and rescue operation will resume tomorrow. Meanwhile, though we have not received any missing information yet, we are looking into the matter,” said the in charge.

Police sources informed that they are suspecting it to be a family dispute however, the in-charge refused to speculate at this stage as the matter is still under investigation.