{"id":488391,"date":"2023-09-14T16:48:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=488391"},"modified":"2023-09-14T19:35:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:05:16","slug":"bihar-children-missing-nitish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/breaking-newscast-bihar\/bihar-children-missing-nitish\/","title":{"rendered":"10 school children go missing as boat capsizes in Bihar\u2019s Muzaffarpur, CM Nitish Kumar assures assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Bihar\u2019s Muzaffarpur, a boat carrying 30 children to school capsized in the Bagmati River on Thursday. As per the reports, 20 out of 30 children have been rescued while 10 kids are missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police and the State Disaster Respond Fund team rushed to the scene and initiated the rescue operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the reports, the incident occurred as CM Nitish Kumar went to Muzaffarpur to review the on going projects. The unfortunate incident happened near Madhupur Patti ghat along the Bagmati River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | A team of NDRF conducts search and rescue operation at the site of a boat capsize in Bihar&#39;s Muzaffarpur<br><br>10 persons remain missing, 15-20 people rescued so far, as per district administration. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9d2hSqASIH\">pic.twitter.com\/9d2hSqASIH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1702255095579328964?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bihar\u2019s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has expressed his concern and assured all the assistance to the families of the victims. The chief minister has asked the district magistrate to look into the incident that took place in the Bagmati River, where children were on their way to school on a boat capsized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another incident, that took place last year in Madhya Pradesh\u2019s Katni district, five children drowned in the river. As per the reports, the children went for a picnic to celebrate a friend\u2019s birthday at the ghat in Katni. Siddharth Rai, SI of NKJ PS, said five children left their homes for a picnic at the ghat. The parents got worried when the children didn\u2019t return, even after dark and their clothes were found on the banks of the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The villagers informed the police that the children had gone for a picnic to celebrate their friend&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After receiving the information about the incident, the police reached the spot and started the rescue operation along with the diving team of Katni SDRF.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The diving team boarded the boat and recovered their bodies. The officials said they found the cooking utensils, clothes, and slippers lying on the side of the pier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deceased are identified as Mehpal Singh (15), Sahil Chakravarti (15), Surya Vishwakarma (15), Aayush Vishkarma (13), Anuj Soni (13). The officials said the children died due to drowning in deep water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police and the State Disaster Respond Fund team rushed to the scene and initiated the rescue operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":488408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1543,125714],"tags":[798,151279,160595],"yst_prominent_words":[29262,30115,3811,15944,46188,4812,5453,4000,5597,17317,5202,20964],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/09\/14164738\/children-missing-boat.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488391"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=488391"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=488391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->