{"id":308111,"date":"2019-01-15T13:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T13:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308111"},"modified":"2019-01-15T13:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T13:05:34","slug":"maharashtra-six-dead-after-boat-capsizes-in-narmada-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-six-dead-after-boat-capsizes-in-narmada-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra: Six dead after boat capsizes in Narmada river"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_307710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-307710\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307710\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/boat-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/boat-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/boat.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-307710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least Six persons died on Tuesday after a boat ferrying them capsized in the Narmada river in Maharashtra&#8217;s Nandurbar district, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to an official, thirty-six persons have been rescued so far and have been admitted to a local hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The boat was carrying about 60 people capsized, when they were on their way to perform a river worship ritual on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, official added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rescue operations are still going on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police said, it appeared that the incident occurred as the boat was carrying more number of people than its capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Further details are awaited.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least Six persons died on Tuesday after a boat ferrying them capsized in the Narmada river in Maharashtra&#8217;s Nandurbar district, police said. According to an official, thirty-six persons have been rescued so far and have been admitted to a local hospital. The boat was carrying about 60 people capsized, when they were on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[1467,10606,10605],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308112,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308111\/revisions\/308112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}