11 dead as tractor-trolley overturns during idol immersion in MP's Khandwa

INDORE: Eleven people, including 8 young girls, drowned connected Thursday evening erstwhile a tractor-trolley carrying devotees for Durga idol immersion toppled into a pond successful Khandwa district.

The mishap occurred successful Ardala colony of Pandhana area, wherever residents of Padlafata from Rajgarh gram panchayat had gathered for the ritual.Witnesses said the trolley, laden with astir 20 to 25 passengers, had been halted adjacent a culvert by the pond erstwhile it abruptly mislaid equilibrium and slipped into the water. Rescue efforts were launched instantly aft the accident, with police, administrative officials and locals rushing to the site.

A JCB instrumentality was deployed to propulsion the trolley out.By evening, 11 bodies had been recovered, though officials feared the toll could emergence arsenic respective others were inactive missing. Locals and household members maintained that much victims remained trapped nether water.Khandwa SP Manoj Rai confirmed the incidental and said hunt operations were continuing precocious into the night.