The death toll in the boat capsize tragedy in a lake in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday rose to 48 after rescue officials recovered 18 more bodies, three days after the incident, a police official said.

The police said rescue personnel were still searching for the bodies of nine students of a madrassa, who were presumed dead after their boat capsized in Tanda Dam Lake in Kohat district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday.