At least 19 people lost their life, 14 of them due to drowning, in the extraordinary incidents that took place during the immersion of Ganesh idols in different parts of Maharashtra, police said on September 10.
He said two men and a woman drowned in the pond while burying idols in the Yavatmal district.
In Ahmednagar district, two people died in separate incidents of drowning in Supa and Belvandi, he said, while two others died in north Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district.
He also said One person each died in rural areas of Pune, Dhule, Satara and Solapur cities.
Four men and women died in an avenue accident at Sakkardara vicinity of Nagpur city at some point of Ganesh immersion, he said.
In Thane, a 55-year-old lady was once killed and 4 others injured after a tree collapsed on a Ganesh pandal in Kolbad place amid rains. a civic reliable said this incident occurred on Friday night.
“A massive tree fell on the pandal while the aarti of Lord Ganesh was once going on as a a phase of the immersion of the idol. The woman, Rajashri Walavalkar, was once seriously injured in the mishap. All of them have been rushed to a hospital, where she was once declared added dead,” the reputable said.
a reputable informed, Meanwhile, at least eleven people, including a nine-year-old girl, were injured after a procession in Panvel in Raigad district was fought over with electric shocks. The incident took place after the cable of an electric generator was snapped at Wadghar Koliwada on Friday evening.
“At least 11 persons who have been part of the procession got here into contact with the cable and sustained injuries. The injured encompass 4 children, he said.
While some of them have been rushed to a private hospital, others have been taken to a State-run clinic in Panvel, he stated adding all are responding properly to the treatment.
Some incidents of law and order in different parts of the state were also suggested by the desecration of idols.
a professional revealed that A scuffle broke out between supporters of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray at Tophkhana in Ahmednagar district.
In Jalgaon, a group of people pelted stones at the mayor’s bungalow during a Ganesh Bisarjan procession, he said, while there were minor incidents of clashes between groups in Pune city, Chandrapur as well as urban and rural parts of the district.
