At least six killed in Crowd Crush at the Hindu temple in Haridwar in India | Religious news
The airline line would occur and come across a part of the crowd, triggering panic among the faithful.
At least six people were killed and dozens injured in a crush after a large crowd gathered in a popular Hindu temple in the state of Uttarakhand in northern India.
The incident of the Mansa Devi temple in the city of Haridwar occurred Sunday after a high -tension electric wire fell on a temple path, triggering panic among the large crowd of faithful.
“The sight of the fall of the thread caused an immediate panic, and a desperate race to escape the stampede,” said Ritesh Saha, responsible for the local police, the newspaper Times of India.
Vinay Shankar Pandey, a senior government official of Uttarakhand, confirmed death. Hospital officials said that a person had been electrocuted, while others died in the jostling that followed, according to Indian media.
The police and emergency services rushed to the scene after the incident and launched a rescue operation. Nearly 35 people injured were transported to a neighboring hospital, officials said.
“The situation is now under control,” Pandey told the Associated Press press agency by phone in Haridwar. “But panic has led to tragic consequences.”
The authorities are studying what caused the air thread and if the proper crowd management protocols were in place. The city of the Temple attracts millions of visitors each year.
“It is extremely painful to receive news from a stampede on the road to the temple of Mansa Devi in Haridwar,” published the chief minister of Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami, published on X.
The eyebrows of religious rallies are not uncommon in India, where massive groups are often gathering on temples or pilgrimage sites, sometimes overwhelming with local infrastructure and security measures.
In June, a sudden crowd wave in a Hindu festival in the coastal state of Odisha sparked a stampede that killed at least three people and injured several others. The previous month saw six people crushed to death in the western state of Goa after thousands of people gathered for a popular fire projection ritual.
In January, at least 30 people were killed in a crush early in the morning at Kumbh Mela, a Hindu mega-festival in the Prayagraj district of the Uttar Pradesh State.
