GAUHATI, India—Two passenger ferries collided Wednesday in a river in northeastern India, leaving at least one person dead and several others missing, officials said.
The head-on collision caused one of the boats to sink in the Brahmaputra river, said Ashok Barman, deputy commissioner of Jorhat city. The crash occurred near Nimati Ghat, a river port in Jorhat, about 220 miles from Gauhati, the capital of Assam state.
