Gloom and pall descended on Patna's Gandhi Maidan after 33 people died in a stampede shortly after the end of the Dussehra celebrations.
Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Monday ordered a high-level inquiry into the stampede at the Allahabad Junction which claimed 36 lives, announced compensation for the victims and blamed the tragedy on tardy crowd management by the local administration.
Authorities continue to pass the buck and even blame pilgrims in what clearly appears to be a case of inept handling of the situation by the police and railway officials, reports Sharat Pradhan
Nine persons were killed and 24 were injured in a stampede at a religious congregation in Jharkhand's Deoghar district on Monday. Eight of those killed were women.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati may have spent thousands of crores from the state government's exchequer to fund the massive memorials, statues and parks paying tribute to her mentor Kashiram and herself, but she has no plans to offer any monetary compensation to the families of those killed in Thursday's stampede at an ashram in Pratapgarh.Most victims of the stampede, which claimed 63 lives, belonged to families living below the poverty line.
All the sadhus have unanimously put the blame squarely on the police and district administration for Sunday night's gruesome tragedy in which seven persons were killed and 50-odd were injured in a stampede near Bhavnath at the foothills of Mount Girnar in Junagadh during the Mahashivaratri Mela.
At least two people were killed in a stampede at New Delhi Railway station Sunday afternoon, fire brigade officials said. At least five others are said to be injured in the freak mishap.
"89 people were killed in the stampede on the bridge over Sindh river leading to the temple at Ratangarh, where lakhs of devotees had congregated, following rumours by some unidentified persons that it was collapsing," Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, ChambalRange, D K Arya told PTI.
"Unfortunately, there are six more Indians taking the toll to 35," External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted.
The rail services have been impacted since late Wednesday morning due to the torrential downpour, leaving scores of commuters stranded and unable to get back home.
At least eight people, including a child, were killed and 40 injured in a stampede at a public rally by opposition leader Imran Khan in central Pakistan on Friday.
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The stampede occurred at an Islamic center of a Sunni Muslim group in down town Karachi and was triggered when a boy fell on the exit and his mother tried to save him from being crushed to death, eyewitnesses said.
At least three young girls were killed and dozens more injured in a stampede after a concert by singer Atif Aslam at an arts complex in Lahore on Monday, officials said.
At least 10 people were killed when a stampede broke out in Hussain Tekri near Jaora town in the district on the occasion of Chellum, a Muslim religious observation that comes after Moharram.
The crush and stampede that struck the Hajj last month in Saudi Arabia killed at least 2,121 pilgrims, a new tally showed on Monday, after officials in the kingdom met to discuss the tragedy.
The mishap occurred as large number of people tried to rush into the Puskhar ghat to take a holy dip.
At least six devotees were killed and 50 injured in a stampede during pulling of Jagannath Rath in Puri on Friday, police said.
Under attack, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday announced a judicial probe into the stampede at a temple in Madhya Pradesh's Datia district as the death toll in the tragedy during Navaratri festivities mounted to 115, prompting demands for his resignation.
KEM hospital claimed the measure was taken to 'avoid chaos'.
A stampede in Zambia killed 12 football fans and injured many others after a match.
The Kerala forest department is of the view that unrestricted entry of vehicles for ferrying pilgrims into the Pullumedu trekking path was one of the factors that paved the way for the January 14 stampede that claimed the lives of 102 Sabarimala pilgrims.
The stampede occurred at around 1400 IST just before the Patna-bound Jan Sadaran Express was scheduled to leave, railway sources said.
It was a horrific Halloween for South Korea as the death toll in Saturday's Seoul stampede rose to 151.
Grief seems to be giving way to rage among survivors of the Allahabad railway station stampede as officials on Monday faced a tough time pacifying family members of those declared dead or undergoing treatment for injuries.
Eight persons were killed and 12 others seriously injured in a stampede in Ashok Nagar in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday evening. According to the police sources, the incident occurred in the evening on the occasion of 'Rangpanchami' on the 'Sita' temple premises situated in Kareela.
A public interest litigation was moved before the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court Tuesday, seeking a high-level judicial probe into Sunday's stampede at the Kumbh Mela that left 36 dead and 39 injured.
The stampede occurred as thousands of pilgrims gathered in Kasiani of Gopalganj district, about 200 km southwest of Dhaka, to take a holy dip, the officials added.
Three women were killed and 35 others injured when a stampede broke out early on Saturday at the Salkanpur Devi Temple in Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh.
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.
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