Deaths in Hindu festival stampede
Six people die and 20 others injured during religious procession in eastern India.
Published On 5 Jul 2008
About one million people were in Puri on Friday to attend the opening day of the week-long annual chariot festival, authorities said.
Three Hindu deities, Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra, are taken out of the temple and then transported in colourfully-decked chariots to anotther nearby temple for a week’s stay.
Pilgrims jostle with each other to pull the chariots, considering it to be a holy task.
Source: News Agencies