Woman & daughter drown in Begusarai

BEGUSARAI: A woman and her three-year-old daughter are feared drowned when their boat capsized in the swollen Ganga in Chamtha diara under Bachhwara block of Begusarai district on Wednesday. A team of SDRF fished out the body of Shivani Kumari while efforts were on to trace the woman identified as Pratima Devi of Gopalpur village of Chamtha panchayat.
Begusarai DM Arvind Kumar Verma said as many as eight persons were on the ill-fated boat.“While the woman and her daughter drowned, the remaining persons either swam to safety or saved by the local people,” he said.
Sources said those on the boat were going to a nearby local market for purchasing some essential household goods as their village is inundated by the floodwaters.