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RANCHI, India, Oct 15 (AFP) - Rescuers have fished out the bodies of 15 victims who drowned when two boats collided in a reservoir during a storm in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, officials said here Tuesday.

Jaishanker Tiwary, chief administrator of the state capital Ranchi, said the bodies of 12 women and three children had so far been recovered and added a search was on for eight other people still missing since Monday's midstream collision.

He said 27 passengers had swum to safety and added that those killed or missing included nine members of a single family.

The victims were Hindu devotees from Salhan village and were on their way to a place of annual religious festival when the boats sank in the Rukha reservoir, some 25 kilometres (16 miles) from Ranchi.

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