Kolkata, Oct 11 (PTI) Three people were missing after being swept away in high tide at the Hooghly river in north Kolkata's Nimtala ghat, police said on Tuesday.

A group of five people, all residents of Beleghata area, were at the Nimtala ghat on Monday night for the last rites of a relative, they said.

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Ignoring warnings of the high tide by locals and officials, they were clicking selfies at the ghat. As the high tide struck around 9 pm, they were swept away, police said.

Two people were rescued by alert locals but three others went missing, said an officer of North Port police station.

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Divers have been deployed in search of them, he said.

Those rescued were admitted to a nearby hospital, he added.

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