Festival ‘crowd surge’ crushes three to death leaving 15 in hospital | World | News
The tragedy was hit on Sunday, June 29 when tens of thousands of people gathered in Puri, India for the Grand Rath Yatra Festival. According to a senior government official, a sudden crowd of dedicated Hindu at around 4.30 o’clock died of three people, including two women, and more than a dozen.
Puri’s senior government official Siddharth Shankar Swain said, “There was a sudden crowd increase because he took a look at the Hindu gods, while a few people fainted, drowning or complaining about shortness of breath,” he said. He told AP to a local government hospital where three people were killed and the other 12 people were discharged. Autopsies are planned to determine the cause of death.
The dedicated were gathered at the Shree Gundicha Temple in the early hours of Sunday to take a look at the gods at the Shree Gundicha Temple near the famous Jagannatha Temple. The Great “Rath Yatra” or the Chariot Festival sees that the town of Coastal Temple is revived every year in one of the oldest and largest religious regiments in the world.
The Festival of the Century involves the removal of the Hindu gods from the temple and the deportation of coloredly decorated warfare cars. It is one of the most respected activities of Hinduism and draws hundreds of thousands of people a year from India and beyond.
According to the local media, the police arranged on -site crowded control. Odisha Prime Minister Mohan Charan Manjhi took responsibility for the confluence and called it as a result of “unforgivable negligence”. He told the authorities to take an exemplary action against those responsible. NDTV.
The tragedy in Puri comes almost two weeks after the terrible Air India accident that killed 260 people when the Boeing 787 Dreamliner hit a medical college on June 12th. 19 more people were killed in Ahmedabad. Vishwashkumar Ramesh was the only survivor of the accident and managed to escape the wreckage from an openness on his body. 40 -year -old Mr. Ramesh was at the 11A chair on the Gatwick flight.
The flight reached only 625 feet before it collapsed 33 seconds after taking off. Both engines seemed to have lost their power, an incredible rare event that experts described as “billion events”.
Inspectors are now investigating whether the Air India accident is caused by sabotage.
“The plane crash investigation office (AAIB) has begun a complete investigation. Any possible sabotage, including any possible sabotage, is being investigated. He said. Although it was previously a potential sabotage speculation, the authorities officially accepted it as a possible reason for the accident.
