Maharashtra Drowning

Four people have died - three were electrocuted - in Pune, two drowned after falling into Thane's Barvi Dam, and a red alert has been declared for Mumbai and Palghar after heavy rainfall, overnight and this morning, battered Maharashtra.

Families of the five individuals who tragically drowned near the Bhushi dam in Lonavala will receive financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh each from the Chief Minister's relief fund, the Maharashtra assembly was told on Wednesday.

The Pune district administration has issued guidelines for tourists in view of the monsoon, following the death of a woman and four children after being swept away at a waterfall near Bhushi Dam in Lonavala.

Five members of a family, including a woman and a teenage girl holidaying in Lonavala near Mumbai, were swept away at a waterfall near the backwaters of the Bhusi Dam this afternoon.

A college picnic turned into tragedy when four students drowned while bathing in a reservoir in Maharashtra today

Six persons, including two children, drowned after their boat capsized in the Ujani dam backwaters in Maharashtra's Pune district, officials said on Wednesday.

Four teenagers were among five persons who drowned in a dam in Igatpuri taluka of Maharashtra's Nashik district on Tuesday during their picnic, police said.

The bodies of five persons, who drowned in an animal waste slurry collected in a pit in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district, have been recovered hours after the incident, officials said today.

Five people are feared drowned after entering a biogas pit in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district on Tuesday, police said.

Four women students of a private institute drowned in the sea at Devgad in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg district on Saturday afternoon while a male student was missing, police said.

Three members of a family drowned on Sunday at the confluence of Wardha and Irai rivers in Chandrapur in Maharashtra, a police official said.

One person died and two others are feared drowned after a group from a village in Chandrapur entered the canal of the Gosikhurd to immerse a Ganpati idol, a police official said on Sunday.

At least 13 persons were killed, including nine due to drowning, during the Ganesh idol immersion processions in parts of Maharashtra, police said on Friday.

A 17-year-old boy drowned in a water-filled quarry at Virar in Maharashtra's Palghar district while trying to get a ball out of it when he was playing cricket nearby, a fire brigade official said on Saturday.

A 32-year-old man was swept away in a swollen nullah (rivulet) near a creek while fishing amid intense showers on Thursday in Kalwa town of Thane district, civic officials said.

Four people have died - three were electrocuted - in Pune, two drowned after falling into Thane's Barvi Dam, and a red alert has been declared for Mumbai and Palghar after heavy rainfall, overnight and this morning, battered Maharashtra.

Families of the five individuals who tragically drowned near the Bhushi dam in Lonavala will receive financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh each from the Chief Minister's relief fund, the Maharashtra assembly was told on Wednesday.

The Pune district administration has issued guidelines for tourists in view of the monsoon, following the death of a woman and four children after being swept away at a waterfall near Bhushi Dam in Lonavala.

Five members of a family, including a woman and a teenage girl holidaying in Lonavala near Mumbai, were swept away at a waterfall near the backwaters of the Bhusi Dam this afternoon.

A college picnic turned into tragedy when four students drowned while bathing in a reservoir in Maharashtra today

Six persons, including two children, drowned after their boat capsized in the Ujani dam backwaters in Maharashtra's Pune district, officials said on Wednesday.

Four teenagers were among five persons who drowned in a dam in Igatpuri taluka of Maharashtra's Nashik district on Tuesday during their picnic, police said.

The bodies of five persons, who drowned in an animal waste slurry collected in a pit in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district, have been recovered hours after the incident, officials said today.

Five people are feared drowned after entering a biogas pit in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district on Tuesday, police said.

Four women students of a private institute drowned in the sea at Devgad in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg district on Saturday afternoon while a male student was missing, police said.

Three members of a family drowned on Sunday at the confluence of Wardha and Irai rivers in Chandrapur in Maharashtra, a police official said.

One person died and two others are feared drowned after a group from a village in Chandrapur entered the canal of the Gosikhurd to immerse a Ganpati idol, a police official said on Sunday.

At least 13 persons were killed, including nine due to drowning, during the Ganesh idol immersion processions in parts of Maharashtra, police said on Friday.

A 17-year-old boy drowned in a water-filled quarry at Virar in Maharashtra's Palghar district while trying to get a ball out of it when he was playing cricket nearby, a fire brigade official said on Saturday.

A 32-year-old man was swept away in a swollen nullah (rivulet) near a creek while fishing amid intense showers on Thursday in Kalwa town of Thane district, civic officials said.