Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - More Than 140 Killed in Stampede at Indian Temple

			November 24, 2009 Log in / Register
			Text Size

For 23 Years, Fully Aware but Mute and Paralyzed

Refuse Allegiance to Coal

Playbill

Lieberman Won't Budge on Health Care

Beautiful Steamer

Refuse Allegiance to Coal
By Chris Hedges

To Your Health—and Mine
By Eugene Robinson

Obama’s Third Way in Afghanistan
By E.J. Dionne

Battlefield in the War of Ideas
By Eugene Robinson

For 23 Years, Fully Aware but Mute and Paralyzed

Lieberman Won’t Budge on Health Care

Over 30 Civilians Killed in Philippines Massacre

Murdoch, Microsoft May Team Up to Challenge Google

Ethics Troubles Loom Large for S.C. Governor

Give Kennedy His Cracker

Home Sales Jump 10.1% in October

‘Left, Right & Center’: The Geithner-Summers Backlash; Is Palin Dangerous?

Throw the Money Changers Out of the Temple

Yuletide Weirdness With Your Host, Bob Dylan

The Guantanamo Lawyers: Shipwrecked
By Baher Azmy

Freedom’s Fight: Part II
By Gary Phillips

Claire Wasserman on Europe’s Islamic Immigrants
By Claire Wasserman

Oprah Sets Her Show’s Expiration Date

Financial Meltdown 101

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

Vetting Sarah Palin

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

Alger Hiss and the Battle for History

By Susan Jacoby
$16.32

Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir

By Gore Vidal
$17.16

Fitted T-Shirt

$20

More Than 140 Killed in Stampede at Indian Temple

bbc.co.uk

A wounded person is carried away at India’s Chamunda Devi temple on Tuesday.

At least 147 people were killed and many more wounded when a wall collapsed at the Chamunda Devi temple in Jodhpur, India, setting off a stampede of devotees there to observe the Hindu Navaratra festival on Tuesday.

BBC:

There have been a number of recent deadly stampedes at Indian temples.

At least 147 people were killed and many more wounded when a wall collapsed at the Chamunda Devi temple in Jodhpur, India, setting off a stampede of panicked devotees there to observe the Hindu Navaratra festival.

The BBC’s Damian Grammaticas in Delhi says this is the fourth time this year that lives had been lost - probably needlessly - during a stampede at a religious festival in India.

He says crowd control at such events is usually rudimentary and the police simply not trained in effective crowd management.

Last month 140 pilgrims were killed in a stampede at a mountain temple in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.

Read more

More Below the Ad

Advertisement

TAGS: chamunda devi festival himachal pradesh hindu india jodhpur navaratra pilgrim stampede temple

Related Entries

October 30, 2009 Clinton: We’re ‘Not Getting Through’ to Pakistanis
October 26, 2009 China and India Join Forces on Climate
October 14, 2009 ‘Colbert Report’: Is That a Cross-Mallow in Your Lucky Charms?
September 28, 2009 What Have We Done to Democracy?
August 21, 2009 In Dry Times, India Will Import Food

Email to a friend

Get truth delivered to
your inbox every week.

Previous item: McCain Campaign Challenged by Economic Crisis

Next item: Republican House Members Say Pelosi's Speech Didn't Sway Them

Elsewhere: .

Comments

Are you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig.

By Leefeller, September 30, 2008 at 6:28 pm #

You know this stampede thing is getting a little long of tooth, but we may see the same problem in the USA at future soup kitchen lines or all us homeless running to get shopping carts, well at least their is something real at the end of the line.

Report this