Hindu devotees immersed idols in a river for the Durga Puja festival.

Worshippers gathered to perform rituals and prayers before dipping the deity's statue into the water in Bihar, India, on October 12.

Footage shows men and women performing a ritual by splashing powder into the fire. They then carefully placed the sculpture on the cargo bed of a vehicle while devotees danced to the music.

Men can be seen submerging the statue of the deity into knee-deep water.

The women took part in the traditional Sindoor Khela, also known as the Vermilion game, where married women apply vermillion to the Goddess' forehead and feet, and then smear it on each other while praying. They then offered sweets to the deity before bidding farewell.

After the immersion, people reportedly distributed sweets and congratulated each other.

Navaratri is an annual Hindu festival to honour Goddess Durga, the Mother Goddess and the Goddess of Power, Strength, and Protection. She is associated with protection, strength, motherhood, destruction, and wars. The festival is celebrated for nine days.