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.
Apr 23, 2021, 14:08 PM IST
Patna: At least 15 people died on Friday (April 23) when a pick-up van carrying them fell from a pontoon bridge into river Ganga in Patna s Danapur locality in the morning in Bihar.
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.
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.
Singh announced an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh each for the next of kin of the dead. BJP Lok Sabha member and former union minister Ramkripal Yadav reached the spot and supervised rescue operations.
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District Manager, HRLS Program, conducts a client workshop in the presence of the Upazila Nirbahi Officer, Sakhipur Upazila, Tangail. Cedit: BRAC
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