Heavy rains recently had raised water levels

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.

At least 46 people, including 37 children, have drowned while celebrating a Hindu festival in eastern India, a local government official told AFP on Thursday. The victims drowned in separate incidents in Bihar state while ritually bathing in rivers and ponds swollen by recent flooding, an official from the Bihar Disaster Management Department told AFP. […]

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

They are among 46 victims in the northern Bihar state during a festival for children's wellbeing.

NEW DELHI: At least 46 people, including 37 children, drowned while taking ritual dips during a Hindu festival in eastern India, local media reported ...

At least 43 people, including 37 children, drowned during the Jitiya Parv Hindu festival in Bihar, India, as devotees ignored dangerous water levels while bathing.

PATNA: At least 46 people, including 37 children, have drowned while celebrating a Hindu festival in eastern India, a local government official told AFP on Thursday (Sep 26). The victims drowned in separate incidents in Bihar state while ritually bathing in rivers and ponds swollen by recent flooding,

At least 46 people have drowned, 37 of them children, at events to celebrate a Hindu festival. The ceremony involves bathing in local rivers and streams.

Drownings occurred across 15 districts of Bihar as devotees marked the Jitiya Parv Hindu festival; 37 children among victims.

At least 46 died in a ceremony that involves bathing in local rivers and streams in Bihar State, where recent rains had raised water levels.