{"id":326501,"date":"2020-09-16T09:44:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T09:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326501"},"modified":"2020-09-16T09:44:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T09:44:44","slug":"at-least-six-dead-several-missing-as-boat-capsizes-in-rajasthans-chambal-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/at-least-six-dead-several-missing-as-boat-capsizes-in-rajasthans-chambal-river\/","title":{"rendered":"At least six dead, several missing as boat capsizes in Rajasthan\u2019s Chambal river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-326549 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/boat-capsize.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/boat-capsize.jpg 431w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/boat-capsize-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/>At least six people have died after a boat carrying around 40 pilgrims capsized in Rajasthan\u2019s Chambal river on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As many as 10 people are reportedly missing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident happened near the Dhibri Chambal area under the Khatoli area of Kota.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Local administration and police teams swung into action to carry out the rescue operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Some people have managed to swim to the shore or have been rescued, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in a tweet said, &#8220;The incident of overturning a boat near Chambal Dhibri in Khatoli area of Thana in Kota is very sad and unfortunate. My deepest condolences to the families of the victims.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Have spoken to the Kota administration to get updates about the incident. Have directed officials to trace missing people. Local police and administration are present at the site. The affected families will get help from CM&#8217;s Relief fund, &#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people have died after a boat carrying around 40 pilgrims capsized in Rajasthan\u2019s Chambal river on Wednesday. As many as 10 people are reportedly missing. The incident happened near the Dhibri Chambal area under the Khatoli area of Kota. Local administration and police teams swung into action to carry out the rescue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":326549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2560,2014],"tags":[13447,5406,1478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326501"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326552,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326501\/revisions\/326552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}