The incident occured when thousands of Shias marching across a bridge in a religious procession heard rumours that a suicide bomber was about to attack, triggering a stampede.
Even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered monetary compensation of 2 lakh ruppes to each to the families of those who died in Thursday's stampede in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has no plans to offer any relief to them.
In a major mishap, at least 24 people are feared killed after a railing of the foot-over bridge collapsed due to excessive crowds at platform no 6 in Allahabad railway station.
The work is expected to be completed by January 2018.
The Indian casualties included two men and four women.
One person died and over 20 others including women were injured in a stampede as thousands of people rushed to get fish prasadam (fish medicine for asthma patients) at the annual distribution at Katedan stadium in Hyderabad, officials said. The incident allegedly occurred at around 9.30 am, after huge crowds rushed to get the medicine when the gates were opened at the distribution site, they said.
Six pilgrims, including three women and a toddler, were killed on the spot and at least 100 were injured in a stampede in the sacred Maha Shivaratri Mela in Junagadh on Sunday night. The toll mounted to seven on Monday morning when one of those injured died in the government hospital of the historic town.
The incident occurred at a relief camp set up in the premises of a government school.
Six persons were killed and several others injured on Tuesday when a stampede broke out at an ashram in Chandidweep area in Haridwar, official sources said.
Temple priest Gaurav Goshwami said limited number of devotees should be allowed inside the shrine at a time and a barrier system should put in place outside it to manage crowd.
The Kerala high court on Thursday came down on the state government for failing to foresee the Pulmedu stampede in which 102 pilgrims were killed."If you provide unrestricted flow of pilgrims, necessary safeguards need to be issued or completely prevent the pilgrims from taking the Pullmedu route," a division bench comprising Justice Thothathil B Radhakrishnan and Justice P S Gopinathan said.The bench has been monitoring the Sabarimala pilgrim season since January 5.
The lack of proper coordination and disaster management plan on the part of railways resulted in the stampede at Allahabad station during last year's Maha Kumbh Mela in which 37 persons were killed, the Comptroller and Auditor General has said.
A day after nearly 150 people were killed in the stampede at the Chamunda Devi temple in Jodhpur, the shrine on Wednesday opened for devotees but their numbers were few. Authorities also beefed up the police presence along the two-km route to it in the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur.From the thousands who had gathered to offer prayers at the temple on the first day of Navaratri festival on Tuesday, their number this morning was reduced to just a few, officials said.
All but one of the 146 people who were killed in the stampede at Naina Devi temple in Himachal Pradesh were identified and their bodies handed over to relatives on Monday. The highest number of dead -- 60 -- are from Patiala district of Punjab, officials said. While 15 pilgrims from Haryana lost their lives, the number of dead from Himachal Pradesh was ten.
The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered a judicial inquiry into the stampede at Allahabad Railway Station that left 37 people dead.
Passengers claimed they were trapped inside the train for over an hour and did not receive any help from authorities even after calling the helpline repeatedly.
The stampede occurred during the ‘stoning the devil’ ritual in the last stages of the annual Hajj.
Ruling out administrative lapse behind the stampede during Chhath which claimed 18 lives, the Bihar government on Wednesday said it was triggered by rumours and hinted at a conspiracy.
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Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan on Saturday announced a judicial inquiry into the stampede that claimed 104 lives at Pullumeduner on Friday night. Achuthanandan, who flew down by a helicopter to Kumali where the bodies of the victims were brought, also announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh for the family of each of the victims. The seriously injured would be given Rs 50,000 and those with minor injuries Rs 25,000.
Things spiralled out of control after more than 6,000 candidates gathered at INS Hamla. The expected crowd was to be around 4,000.
A 65-year-old woman was killed and three others were injured in a stampede during a feast organised by ruling Janata Dal United Member of Legislative Assembly Poonam Devi in Bihar's Khagaria district on Monday, said the police. The legislator has hosted the feast at her home in Chukti village of the district.
The FoBs were constructed by the Army Engineers in a record 117 days.
Sirsa Deputy Commissioner Yudhvir Singh said that preliminary reports indicated that at the function, someone spread a rumour about the presence of a snake that led to devotees running helter-skelter leading to the stampede.
A day after 63 women and children were killed in a stampede in an ashram, a criminal case has been registered against its management for allegedly causing death due to negligence.
At least 15 people were injured on Sunday when fans tried to push their way into a local stadium to watch a pre-World Cup match between Nigeria and North Korea only five days before the tournament gets underway.
As the identification process continued, authorities did not rule out the possibility of this number increasing.
District Magistrate Ajay Kumar Upadhaya said an 80-year-old woman collapsed due to the heavy rush of devotees at the ghat while another woman fainted following which people panicked and started running helter-skelter.
One person was killed and 11 others injured when a stampede broke out at the Kalina ground in Mumbai on Monday where a police recruitment drive was being held.
Devaswoms are meant to manage temples, not the faithful. Why didn't they simply stick to their set of responsibilities and execute it well and efficiently?, asks Shyam G Menon.
A Delhi government school, which witnessed a stampede that left five girls dead almost three weeks ago, reopened on Tuesday amid violent protests from locals and parents demanding a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the tragic incident. The police had to use mild force to control the crowd which pelted stones, set afire a bus and blocked the Delhi-Ghaziabad Highway, causing a huge traffic jam and inconvenience to motorists in the area.
Tragedy struck a government secondary school in Delhi on Thursday when five girls were killed and 27 other students injured, six of them very critically, in a stampede.
Two persons died and seven others were injured in a stampede after a fire broke out in Murshidabad Medical College Hospital in Berhampore district of West Bengal triggering panic among patients and their relatives.
The mass gathering was organised to celebrate the Lag B'Omer holiday at Mount Meron.
Police said the incident occurred as people pushed and jostled, and fell over each other to get closer to the star's vehicle. Private security guards and the star's fans, who formed the security ring around the vehicle, tried to keep the situation under control but couldn't save the two persons from being trampled.
Rumours of a live power line having snapped triggered the stampede. The injured have been rushed to a local hospital, a BSP spokesperson said.
The Bihar government on Sunday vowed to punish those responsible for "lapses" that led to the stampede at the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna on October 3, leaving 33 people dead and 29 injured.
At least two devotees were on Sunday killed and 10 others injured when a stampede broke out in a Shiva temple on the occasion of Shivratri in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh.
Stampedes at temples and other religious places in India have claimed nearly 900 lives in the past nine years, including those who died in Friday night's melee at Sabarimala shrine.
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