Lack of adequate arrangements at the Ganga ghat led to the death of four persons, including three women, when their boat capsized in the Ganga river in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh on Monday morning.Four persons were injured and have been .
Raj Karan Nayyar, Superintendent of Police, Ballia, confirmed that three women died and four others were in the accident. The police said those injured are undergoing treatment in a hospital and doctors have stated their condition to be stable.
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ordered that the ex-gratia amount of Rs 4 lakh each for the next of kin of the dead be given without any delay, an official statement said.
Search and rescue operations under way. Image tweeted by @ramkripalmp
Nine people died when a pick-up van carrying a marriage party fell from a pontoon bridge into river Ganga in Patna s Danapur locality on Friday morning, District Magistrate Chandrasekhar Singh said.
The driver of the vehicle with 13 people on board lost control of it while crossing the Peepa Pul in Akihpur area, he said.
Four people swam to safety while nine died, the DM said.
9 die as pick-up van falls into river in Patna
PATNA: At least nine people died when a pick-up van carrying them fell from a pontoon bridge into river Ganga in Patna’s Danapur locality on Friday morning, District Magistrate Chandrasekhar Singh said.
The driver of the vehicle with around 13 people on board lost control of it while crossing the Peepa Pul in Akihpur area, he said.
Four people swam to safety while nine died, the DM said.
The pick-up van was carrying members of a family returning from a marriage function at Akhipur to their Chitrakut Nagar residence in Danapur. The incident took place around 7.30 am, he said.
Search and rescue operations under way. Image tweeted by @ramkripalmp
PATNA: Altogether nine persons including four women and three minors were drowned by remaining trapped inside the SUV in which they were travelling when it fell into river Ganga from pontoon bridge near Purani Panapur under Akilpur police station area of Saran police on Friday.
Soon after the incident, the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) team headed by a sub-inspector Ashok Kumar was pressed into action which pulled out the nine bodies one by one from inside the SUV after it was fished out from approximately a 25-feet deep river bed using a crane. The accident took place at around 8.30am.