Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar condoled the deaths and announced an ex-gratia amount of Rs 4 lakh each for the next of kin of the deceased.
So far eight bodies have been recovered by the rescue team. The NDRF team is also on-site and carrying out rescue missions. According to the local SDM, it is unclear how many people went into the waters.
Seven persons were swept away in the Saraswati river water near Patan town on Wednesday evening during the idol immersion.
A leisurely picnic turned into a heart-wrenching tragedy as four members of a family, including two women, were drowned in Gujarat's Mahisagar river.
Four teenagers drowned in the Cauvery river at T Narasipura in the district, police said on Friday.
Police said the bodies of two youths, identified as Tummu Tartik and Ramavarapu Prakash, were fished out by expert divers while a search was on for Anvish and Srikanth.
Sikandarpur Sub-Divisional Magistrate Annapurna Garg said the incident took place on Wednesday around 4 pm after a group of six boys had finished immersing idols of Goddess Lakshmi.
At least 12 people, including five children, drowned in two separate incidents in Vaishali and Samastipur districts of Bihar today, police said.
Mandsaur, MP, Nov 13: Fourteen persons, mostly women and children, were drowned in Chambal river when the boat in which they were travelling suddenly capsized. The mishap took place at Sitamau near Mandsaur on Saturday,
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