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01-01-2022, 07:34 PM
01 Jan 2022 02:45PM
(Updated: 01 Jan 2022 02:45PM)
SRINAGAR: At least 12 people died and 13 were injured in a stampede at a religious shrine in India in the early hours of Saturday (Jan 1) as thousands of pilgrims massed to offer prayers
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The disaster happened around 3am while it was still dark on the route to the Vaishno Devi shrine in Indian-administered Kashmir, one of the country's most revered Hindu sites.
"People fell over each other ... It was difficult to figure out whose leg or arms were tangled with whose,"
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Before the pandemic, every day about 100,000 devotees would trek up a steep winding track to the narrow cave containing the shrine to Vaishno Devi.
Authorities had capped the daily number to 25,000 but witnesses and press reports said that this may have been exceeded several times over.
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Two stampedes in as many months in India in 2008 left more than 370 Hindus dead. Others in Kerala in 2011 and in Madhya Pradesh two years later each killed more than 100.
In the latest incident, other reports suggested an argument had broken out between devotees.
Much more at: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/ind...hs-2410256
(Updated: 01 Jan 2022 02:45PM)
SRINAGAR: At least 12 people died and 13 were injured in a stampede at a religious shrine in India in the early hours of Saturday (Jan 1) as thousands of pilgrims massed to offer prayers
......
The disaster happened around 3am while it was still dark on the route to the Vaishno Devi shrine in Indian-administered Kashmir, one of the country's most revered Hindu sites.
"People fell over each other ... It was difficult to figure out whose leg or arms were tangled with whose,"
......
Before the pandemic, every day about 100,000 devotees would trek up a steep winding track to the narrow cave containing the shrine to Vaishno Devi.
Authorities had capped the daily number to 25,000 but witnesses and press reports said that this may have been exceeded several times over.
......
Two stampedes in as many months in India in 2008 left more than 370 Hindus dead. Others in Kerala in 2011 and in Madhya Pradesh two years later each killed more than 100.
In the latest incident, other reports suggested an argument had broken out between devotees.
Much more at: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/ind...hs-2410256
