Six Holi revellers drowned in two separate incidents in Ahmedabad and Navsari districts of Gujarat on Wednesday, officials said. ...
08:57 AM, Mar 28, 2013
At least 11 teenagers drowned during Holi revelry in Nizamabad district and at Kukatpally area here on Wednesday, police said. A group of 15 boys went to the village tank to bath after Holi celebrations in Basant Cheruvu (village tank) in Sirikonda village of Nizamabad district late on Wednesday afternoon, after which seven of them began drowning, a senior police officer at Armoor told reporters. ...
08:50 AM, Mar 28, 2013
Four tourist from Tamil Nadu, including a child, drowned in Kerala's Alappuzha district after a houseboat capsized on Saturday. The incident took place at a popular tourist spot of the district, Punnamada lake. ...
04:44 PM, Jan 26, 2013
Five National Cadet Corps (NCC) cadets drowned in the Periyar river in Kerala on Wednesday morning. The cadets had gone to participate in the Malayattoor trekking camp. The cadets are reportedly from Delhi. ...
03:15 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Ganpatipule: Seven tourists drowned in Arabian sea off Ganpatipule beach in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, police said on Sunday. While five of the seven bodies were fished out, two more bodies are still missing, they said. The seven picnickers from Thane and Solapur ventured into the water last evening and were not far from the sea shore when they were swept away by strong current, police said. ...
11:59 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Chennai: A class IV student of a prominent city school drowned in the institution's swimming pool on Thursday, police said. Police identified the deceased as Ranjan, son of a Tamil film director, a student of the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhawan at KK Nagar in Chennai. The incident occurred during the swimming period and when trainers noticed him in an unconscious state they rushed him to a nearby hospital where he...
07:56 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Chennai: Two from a group of friends bathing on Marina Beach were swept away by a giant wave on Sunday evening. Police said Dheenadayalan(18) and Madan Kumar (17), both residents of Tondiarpet, along with a few other friends entered the sea and were playing when a giant wave hit the shore-line. Dheenadayalans family members Parvathi (mother), Vedavalli (sister) and Karuppasamy (father) and Madan Kumars family members were eagerly waiting at...
01:13 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Chennai: A huge pit left behind by private sand mining contractors at Kannapalayam village under Poonamallee panchayat limits near Avadi some years ago, has turned into a death trap for the villagers. Four persons, including two children, have drowned in the pit-turned-pond since last year. According to P Nagalingam, a resident of the village, some years ago, Public Works Department (PWD) officials during the previous regime awarded tenders to private...
02:17 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Doda: The roads of Doda and Kishtwar, by the river Chenab, are most treacherous. More than 500 people, navigating these dangerous terrains, have lost their lives. Even worse, the victims' bodies usually get washed away and are never recovered. The Chenab is both pride and sorrow for the people of the Chenab Valley. It is tagged as The Sorrow because every year, hundreds of passengers plunge into the river after...
08:35 AM, Jul 23, 2012
Chennai: A pleasure trip to the Kovalam beach ended in tragedy for a group of medical students on Saturday evening after one of them drowned while taking a dip in the sea, while another went missing. Police sources said that a group of 13 students from a private medical college in Kancheepuram had gone to Kovalam to celebrate the birthday of one of them. While 10 of them stayed on...
01:48 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Mumbai: In a tragic incident in Mumbai, two teenage boys are feared drowned at the Juhu beach. Rescue operations were launched on Saturday night after the boys aged 16 and 17, were last seen at Juhu Chowpatty. Their bodies have not been found, but authorities believe there's no hope for them. ...
07:59 AM, Jun 24, 2012
RAMESWARAM: Kalvin (18), a fisherman from Pamban, drowned while four others escaped when a Coast Guard (CG) patrol boat allegedly hit the country boat in which the group were fishing 11 nautical miles off the Pamban coast on Thursday night.Other fishermen in the area, on hearing the noise caused by the accident, rescued Sathiyan, Aruldass, Bose and Innasi, who were struggling for life in the sea. On Thursday, the five...
09:16 AM, May 12, 2012
Los Angeles: Whitney Houston was a chronic cocaine user who had the drug in her system when she drowned in a hotel bathtub, coroner's officials said Thursday after releasing autopsy findings that also noted heart disease contributed to her death. The disclosure ended weeks of speculation about what killed the Grammy-winning singer on Feb. 11 on the eve of the Grammy Awards. Houston was found submerged in the bathtub of...
09:27 AM, Mar 23, 2012
CHENNAI: A Sunday evening at the beach turned tragic for three software engineers from Bangalore, when they were swept away by waves off Thiruvanmiyur coast. Police identified the victims as G Praveen (21) of Gayathri Nagar in Bangalore, D Sakthi (21) of Somavarpet near Kudagu and N Anand Bhushan (21) of Senrayapatinam in Hasan district. Police said the victims drowned when they tried to retrieve a tennis ball floating on...
09:51 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Kolkata: At least 18 people were feared drowned and several others went missing on Saturday after a boat capsized in the Buriganga river in West Bengal. The vessel, carrying around 150 people, capsized in a river in the Sunderbans mangrove forest, 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of Kolkata. The victims were mainly farmers and fishermen and were returning from a Muslim religious festival when the accident occurred. "They were returning...
08:41 AM, Oct 31, 2010
Patna: As many as 35 people, mostly women and children, were killed when a boat capsized in the Ganga river in Bihar's Buxar district, police said on Monday. There were around 80 people in the boat when the accident took place late on Sunday near Dallupur bank, about 125 km from Patna. At least 15 people were still missing, a police official said. The passengers, all of them poor labourers,...
10:12 AM, Oct 11, 2010
Dakha: One person died and 40 remain missing in Bangladesh, after a bus packed with passengers lost control and plunged into a river near the national capital Dhaka on Sunday, officials said. Around 50 passengers were on board the ill-fated bus which lost control as it approached a bridge and plunged into the Turag river at Amin Bazar area, near Dhaka, they said. Authorities called out the army while navy...
09:13 AM, Oct 11, 2010
Alappuzha: A mentally unstable woman allegedly drowned her eight-month-old baby in a washing machine at her home at Cherthala in Kerala on Friday. The incident occurred on Friday evening when the infant's father and elder sister were away. Suma, 40, -- said to be undergoing psychiatric treatment -- turned up on her own at the women's cell of the Town police station in Alappuzha and confessed to the crime, police...
12:35 PM, Sep 25, 2010
With a negligible number of lifeguards and safety facilities, Mumbai has seen 40 drowning deaths this year. ...
12:42 PM, Jul 24, 2010
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Fifteen-year-old Kajil Devi was at the Cotswold Water Park in Gloucestershire when the accident occurred at 3.45 pm on Sunday. ...
04:06 PM, Jul 16, 2010
