Ganesh idol immersion: 33 drown in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi
Rescue services personnel searching the Lower Lake in Bhopal where two overcrowded boats capsized on Friday. Eight persons were rescued. Special Correspondent Most of the victims were in their 20s; some of them were minors. Thirty three people, most of them in their 20s, drowned during the immersion of Ganesh idols in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi, officials said on Friday. Some of the dead were minors, they said. In Madhya Pradesh’s capital Bhopal, 11 people died when two overcrowded country boats carrying a 20-ft. tall idol for immersion in Lower Lake in Khatlapura capsized. Eight were rescued. Seventeen people were on the boats when the incident took place around 4.30 a.m., Bhopal district collector Tharun Kumar Pithode said. Six of the dead in Madhya Pradesh were in their 20s, while two were minor. One of those rescued said that safety equipment was not provided to the devotees venturing into the lake to immerse idols. “First, one of the boats capsized n...