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At least 19 pe🗹rsons died, 14 of them due to drowning, in various incidents that occ🅷urred during the immersion of Ganesh idols in parts of Maharashtra, police said on Saturday.
The 10-day Ganesh festiv෴al, which had started on ℱAugust 31, ended on Friday.
In Wardha district three persons drowned at Sawan💮gi, while another one drowned at Devli, an officialꦉ said.
Two persons drowned in a pond in Yavatmal district when they went for immers🔥ion of ido🗹ls, he said.
In Ahmednagar district, two persons died of dꦆrowning in separate incidents at Supa and Belvandi, he said, adding that two others died in Jalgaon district of north Maharashtra.
One each died in Pꦯune's rural part, Dhule, Satara and Solapur city, he sa🌟id.
Four persons died in a road accident at Sakkardara area of Nagpur c🦋ity during Ganesh immersion, he 🐬said.
In Thane, a 55-year-old woman was killed and four others injured a༺fter a tree collapsed on a Ganesh pandal in Kolbad area amid rains. The incident occurred on Friday night, a civic official said.
"A huge tree fell on the pandal while the aarti of the Lord Ganesh was going on as par♍t of the immersion of the idol. The woman, Rajashri Walavalkar, was seriously injured in the mishap. All of them were rushed to a hospital, where she was declared brought dead," the official said.
Meanwhile, at least 11 persons, including a nine-year-old girl, were injured after suffering an electric shock at Panvel in Raigad district du🌱ring a procession. The incident took place on🐭 Friday evening at Wadghar Koliwada after a cable of an electric generator snapped, an official said.
"At 🌜least 11 persons who were part of the procession came into contact with the cable and sustained injuries. The injured include four children, he said.
Whil🍸e some of them were rushed to a private hospital, others were taken to a state-run hospital in Panvel, he said adding all are responding well to the treatment.
Some law and ord𝔉er related incidents were also reported in parts of the state during the immersion o📖f idols.
A scuffle broke out between the supporters of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray at Tophkhana in Ahmednagar district, an officia𓂃l said.
In Jalgaon, a group of people hurled stones at the mayor's bungalow during the Ganesh immersion procession, he said, while minor incidents of scuffle between groups were repor⛄ted in Pune city and rural part of the district as well as Chandrapur♒.
(With PTI inputs)
