{"id":107583,"date":"2024-09-27T16:49:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T09:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107583"},"modified":"2024-09-27T16:49:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T09:49:44","slug":"dozens-of-children-drown-during-hindu-festival-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107583","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of children drown during Hindu festival in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">LUCKNOW, India \u2014 At least 46 people, most of them children, have drowned while bathing in rivers and ponds swollen by recent floods during the observance of a Hindu religious festival celebrated by millions in north <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/invented-butter-chicken-court-india-will-decide-rcna153870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">India<\/a>, authorities said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The dead include 37 children and seven women who drowned on Wednesday in the eastern state of Bihar in scattered incidents across 15 districts, a statement from Bihar\u2019s disaster management department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">India has seen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/stampede-religious-event-india-kills-100-people-almost-women-rcna160102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deadly stampedes<\/a>\u00a0during religious events in the past, but widespread drowning incidents during festivals are rare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Local media reported that some of the rivers and ponds in the state had been swollen by floods following heavy rains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Devotees were celebrating the annual festival of Jivitputrika Vrat, during which women fast for 24 hours and offer prayers for the well-being of their children. They also travel to rivers and ponds in their neighborhood to bathe, sometimes accompanied by their children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">The state government has announced compensation of 400,000 rupees ($4,784) for the families of each of the deceased, the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/dozens-children-drown-hindu-festival-india-rcna172969\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKNOW, India \u2014 At least 46 people, most of them children, have drowned while bathing in rivers and ponds swollen by recent floods during the observance of a Hindu religious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107583\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}