The our bodies of the deceased relations, who died by drowning whereas taking tub within the Saryu river in Ayodhya, had been delivered to Agra on Saturday evening and cremated, immersing the locality in grief.
For the Goyal household of Agra, the much-awaited Ayodhya journey that they’d been planning for months, proved to be a catastrophe that prompted the dying of seven relations by drowning within the Saryu river.
Residents of the Shastripuram space in Agra, the Goyals had gone to Ayodhya on a pilgrimage in a gaggle of 12 folks, who slipped into the Saryu river and began drowning. Whereas a few of them managed to save lots of themselves with the assistance of rescuers, seven of them drowned.
Ashok Goyal, the top of the household, was a local of Itora village and had moved to Agra about 15 years again. He stated that the Ayodhya journey was part of the household’s annual pilgrimage and no one had suspected that for many of the relations, this would be the final journey.
His six-year-old granddaughter Dhairya someway survived this ordeal and appeared confused to see so many individuals in the home, however not her father.
Goyal stated that the accident was prompted resulting from rain. The ghat the place the household was doing its ritual bathing was not cemented, and Dhairya slipped into the river.
Seeing Dhairya drowning, Ashok’s son Lalit jumped into the river and acquired caught within the robust present. After that, one after the other, a number of different relations jumped into the river to save lots of one another, however they had been all carried away by the water’s present, stated Goyal.
Expressing condolences on behalf of the group, Hindustani Biradari Vice-Chairman Vishal Sharma stated this incident might have been prevented had the ghat been cemented and rescue divers been appointed there.
He appealed to the pilgrims to keep away from such ghats the place security measures are usually not in place, to keep away from the repeat of a mishap of this magnitude.
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