Dozens of children drown during Hindu festival in India

Dozens of Children Drown While Bathing During 3-Day Hindu Festival in Eastern India

PATNA, India—Dozens of children drowned while bathing in rivers and ponds in rituals that were part of a three-day Hindu festival in eastern India’s Bihar state, officials said. Heavy monsoon rains recently had raised the levels of waterways across the state. At least 46 people, including 37 children, drowned in separate incidents across the state’s 15 districts, a statement from Bihar’s disaster management department said. Authorities have reco…

Dozens of Children Drown Bathing in Rivers During Festival in India

Dozens of children drowned while bathing in rivers and ponds in rituals that were part of a three-day Hindu festival in eastern India's Bihar state, officials said. Heavy monsoon rains recently had raised the levels of waterways across the state, the AP reports. At least 46 people, including 37 children,...

In this three-day celebration, mothers fast and take baths with their children in rivers or ponds for well-being, long life and prosperity, but those flooded by the rains become very dangerous Read

Dozens of children drown while bathing during 3-day Hindu festival in eastern India

Dozens of children have drowned while bathing in rivers and ponds as part of a three-day Hindu festival in eastern India.

37 kids among the 46 who drowned during religious festival in India

At least 46 people have drowned in flooded rivers during a three-day religious festival in eastern India.Thirty-seven of those were children and six were women, according to the Bihar State Government.They died while taking holy baths in rivers across several districts for the Jivitputrika festival, in which women fast for the wellbeing of their children.READ MORE: NRL investigates Broncos duo over Bali incidentThe death toll is feared to rise…

Forty six drown during festival in India, 37 children among the dead

At least 46 people, including 37 children, drowned in the Indian state of Bihar as they bathed in rivers and lakes during the Hindu ‘Jitiya’ festival