More Than 140 Killed in Stampede at Indian Temple
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.
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.
Wait, before you go…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.
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