Two boats, carrying 12 picnickers, had capsized in the Ramrei of Mapithel Dam in Kamjong District of Manipur and sunk under the impact of the “Cyclone Fani” on 28th  April. While nine of them were later rescued by the locals.
The three persons including a woman were killed in the freak storm while they were enjoying a boat ride.The fierce storm that lasted for around 30 minutes blow the boats that the three were riding and as it turn upside-down the trio could not be found till yesterday morning,2nd May.

The missing persons were identified as Sagapam Rajiv (36) and Sagapam Romen (31),the two brothers and Ningthoujam Rina (20), all of them hailing from Ningthoukhong Kha Khunou of Bishnupur District.
After 35 rescuers from National Disaster Response Force,15 personnel from State Disaster Response Force and 28 personnel form the State Fire Service fails to find the dead bodies, the state government takes the help of the Indian Navy team.

A special team of Indian Navy, comprising of 12 divers and two hydrographers (survey sailors), were airlifted from Visakhapatnam to Manipur capital Imphal on Tuesday evening by an Indian Air Force aircraft and  joined the ongoing search operation  to locate the three missing picnickers.

Divers of the Navy team arrived on April 30 evening and since then the divers had been conducting massive hunt of the three dead bodies by using necessary diving equipment including portable side scan sonar for locating objects underwater and commenced search operation.
After a continuous massive hunt for 3 days one of the three persons, dead body of Sagakpam Rajiv was recovered yesterday at around 3 pm by a local of Chadong. Massive hunt for the two bodies still continued and finally found the remaining 2 missing bodies of Sagapam Romen and Nongthoujam Rina today,3rd May by the Navy team.

This tragic incident proves the unity of of the state where every groups of different communities join together as one  in finding the bodies  continuously for the past 5 days. Almost all the people of the Ramrei village who have shifted to a safer area after their village had been submerged under the water prayed with tears rolling down their cheek for finding the three souls.

Chadong is a village in Kamjong District of Manipur State,India. It is located about 37 Km from its  state capital Imphal. The Mapithel Dam is an artificial lake dam which was approved by the Planning Commission of India in 1980 and was conceived without the knowledge of the public.The Dam is located on the Thoubal River in the Mapithel Valley.

The persons who were affected by it belong to the three major communities of Manipur. The upstream affected people are mostly Naga. The downstream affected persons were mostly Kuki and Meithei. Hence, the dam has proved to be rather non-discriminatory in affecting people. Chadong Village, a village once known for its vegetables has no cultivable land anymore, let alone houses as it has been completely submerged.
The villagers of Chadong in Ukhrul district, Manipur are today waiting for the attention of the government after their village has been submerged by the Mapithel Dam/ Thoubal Multi-Purpose project constructed to harness the water of Thoubal river for providing irrigation facilities, power generation, augmentation of water supply to Imphal city and to reduce substantially the chances of flood damage in the downstream.