At least 50 people, mostly women and children, are feared dead after a boat capsized in a river during a storm in eastern India, a government official has said.

About 75 people, most of whom were returning from a village fair, were on board the boat when it capsized on the Bagmati river in Bihar state on Tuesday.

"We have recovered 11 bodies so far and search is on for 40 other missing people," Rajendra Prasad, an official from Bihar's Khagaria district where the incident occurred, told the Reuters news agency.

"But their survival chances look very thin," he added.

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