Overview

• In Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa, a tractor-trolley carrying devotees and Durga idols overturned into a pond near Pandhana, with officials confirming 11 bodies recovered, many of them girls.
• Chief Minister Mohan Yadav announced Rs 4 lakh ex-gratia for each victim’s family and ordered medical care for the injured as police, SDRF and local divers concluded recovery operations.
• Separate immersion accidents were reported in Ujjain and Shahdol, where fatalities were confirmed and searches continued for people reported missing.
• Elsewhere during the holiday period, six died when an SUV hit a parked truck in Muzaffarnagar, four youths were killed after a speeding vehicle struck their motorcycles in Balrampur, and three died in a Kaimur SUV–truck collision.
• Police have opened cases, seized vehicles or sought drivers across incidents tied to unauthorised or overcrowded transport and unsafe sites, with additional deaths reported in Panchkula, Jalpaiguri and Agra, where six remain missing.