At least 22 Christmas revellers drowned on Sunday evening as their overcrowded fibre-glass boat capsized in Pulicat Lake in Tiruvallur district. Fibre-glass boats are normally used for fishing.

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At least 16 are missing after a boat carrying tourists capsized in Pulicat lake, 58 kms from Chennai, on Sunday.

Initial reports claim the boat was carrying at least 20 passengers. Eyewitnesses added

Twenty-two persons were today killed after the boat in which they went on a pleasure trip capsized in Pulicat Lake, about 60 kms from here, police said.

About 25 persons were in the boat, they said,