13 children die after overloaded boat capsizes in India
‘A few families have lost all their children’, one villager said. The boat was bound for a Hindu festival when it sank
The boat overturned late on Tuesday in Vaishali district in eastern Bihar state, with locals rushing to pull people out of the water in the dark using mobile phones to find the bodies.
“It was dark when we suddenly heard children screaming and crying for help as the boat capsized,” said Ravi Yadav, a young villager who joined the rescue effort.
“We managed to rescue only three children, using the light from mobile phones and torches, because it was dark.”
