Police rescued 30 picnickers trapped on an island in the Betwa river near the tourist town of Orchha in Madhya Pradesh Saturday morning.
Orchha Police Station in-charge Virendra Singh Chouhan said a group of 30 persons from the town had gone to the island for a picnic.
They got stranded there when the water level surged suddenly, he said.
Police rescued them by using a motorboat, he said.
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