Baby Born On Boat

A 24-year-old woman in flood-hit Assam gave birth to a baby boy in a boat on Monday and named him Krishnaafter the Hindu Godwhowas also believed to have been born during massive floods.

The baby was travelling on one of two rubber boats carrying over 200 migrants and seen drifting some 22 nautical miles north of the Libyan town of Sabratha, the most frequently used departure point currently used by people smugglers in Libya.

Parents of newborns in relief camps of flood-swamped Bihar are naming their children after the river Ganga or even the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) that has come to their help.

In the middle of rescue sorties for those marooned by floods in Bihar, a group of disaster force commandos helped deliver a baby on a boat.

For three consecutive years from 2012, Bundelkhand region in central India was hit by a crippling drought. This year, when the rain started, farmers and villagers finally hoped there would be some relief. But slowly that hope is now fading, with many areas now facing flood fury.

Around 6,800 migrants were rescued from overcrowded boats crossing to Europe over the weekend, including a mother who gave birth to a baby girl on an Italian navy ship, the coast guard said.

A 24-year-old woman in flood-hit Assam gave birth to a baby boy in a boat on Monday and named him Krishnaafter the Hindu Godwhowas also believed to have been born during massive floods.

The baby was travelling on one of two rubber boats carrying over 200 migrants and seen drifting some 22 nautical miles north of the Libyan town of Sabratha, the most frequently used departure point currently used by people smugglers in Libya.

Parents of newborns in relief camps of flood-swamped Bihar are naming their children after the river Ganga or even the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) that has come to their help.

In the middle of rescue sorties for those marooned by floods in Bihar, a group of disaster force commandos helped deliver a baby on a boat.

For three consecutive years from 2012, Bundelkhand region in central India was hit by a crippling drought. This year, when the rain started, farmers and villagers finally hoped there would be some relief. But slowly that hope is now fading, with many areas now facing flood fury.

Around 6,800 migrants were rescued from overcrowded boats crossing to Europe over the weekend, including a mother who gave birth to a baby girl on an Italian navy ship, the coast guard said.