INDIA - 22 drown as children's boat sinks

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22 drown as children's boat sinks

POSTED: 11:26 a.m. EST, February 20, 2007

Story Highlights

• River boat capsizes during school trip• At least 18 children and four teachers drowned• Sixteen children still missing at nightfall• All children younger than 11

COCHIN, India (AP) -- A river boat carrying children on a school trip capsized in southern India on Tuesday, and at least 18 children and four teachers drowned, a local official said. Sixteen children were missing as night fell.

 

Three boats were carrying more than 100 students and staff down the Periyar River in the Thattekkad bird sanctuary when one boat capsized, said Mohammad Haneesh, a top official of the district. All the children were younger than 11.

 

As darkness fell, 16 children were still missing, and 10 had been admitted to a local hospital, he said.

It was not clear how many children were in the boat that capsized.

The Thattekkad sanctuary is about 25 miles east of Cochin, the commercial hub of the southern state of Kerala.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/20/india.boat.ap/index.html

Dear List Members,

Dasha: VE/ME/MA/RA/SU

The Sun is not afflicted but it is exactly aspecting MEP4, being L1 in D12.

Mercury (children) is not afflicted but it is retrograde in the same degree as natal Mercury, the MMP in D8.

Mars is not afflicted but it is aspected by the Moon, being FMP in D8 & D12.

Venus and Rahu are afflicted.

Best wishes,

Jorge