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Stampede in India Kills at Least 100
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By HARI KUMAR
Published: September 30, 2008
NEW DELHI - At least 100 people died in a stampede Tuesday during a religious festival at a north Indian temple, officials said. The victims, most of them men, were suffocated as they rushed down a narrow path from the temple 150 yards above, they said.
Some news agencies reported that 125 deaths had been confirmed.
Thousands of Hindu pilgrims visit the Chamunda Devi temple at the southern edge of the 15th-century Mehrangarh fort in Jodhpur in Rajasthan.
Tuesday was the first day of a nine-day festival called Navratra that celebrates nine incarnations of the Hindu mother goddess Durga. Between 2,000 and 3, 000 pilgrims were present when the stampede began at about 6 a.m.
"It seems the narrow path became very slippery," said Kiran Soni Gupta, chief civil servant in the district. "Most of the dead are men and without any visible physical injuries. It seems they died of suffocation."
"The injured do not have any major physical injuries, not even a simple fracture," said Dr. D. R. Mathur, of Mahatma Gandhi hospital in Jodhpur. "None of the dead bodies have any injury marks. They all died of suffocation"
"Everybody was in hurry and heated arguments took place before the stampede," a witness said on television.
Stampedes are not rare in India. In August, 148 people died in Himachal Pradesh in similar circumstances. In 2005, a fire and stampede at the Mandhar Devi hilltop temple in western India left more than 250 dead.
"A separate queue was arranged for women and children and police was deployed at 2:00 a.m., so all the necessary arrangements were made," said Gulab Chand Kataria, the home minister of Rajasthan.
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By HARI KUMAR
Published: September 30, 2008
NEW DELHI - At least 100 people died in a stampede Tuesday during a religious festival at a north Indian temple, officials said. The victims, most of them men, were suffocated as they rushed down a narrow path from the temple 150 yards above, they said.
Some news agencies reported that 125 deaths had been confirmed.
Thousands of Hindu pilgrims visit the Chamunda Devi temple at the southern edge of the 15th-century Mehrangarh fort in Jodhpur in Rajasthan.
Tuesday was the first day of a nine-day festival called Navratra that celebrates nine incarnations of the Hindu mother goddess Durga. Between 2,000 and 3, 000 pilgrims were present when the stampede began at about 6 a.m.
"It seems the narrow path became very slippery," said Kiran Soni Gupta, chief civil servant in the district. "Most of the dead are men and without any visible physical injuries. It seems they died of suffocation."
"The injured do not have any major physical injuries, not even a simple fracture," said Dr. D. R. Mathur, of Mahatma Gandhi hospital in Jodhpur. "None of the dead bodies have any injury marks. They all died of suffocation"
"Everybody was in hurry and heated arguments took place before the stampede," a witness said on television.
Stampedes are not rare in India. In August, 148 people died in Himachal Pradesh in similar circumstances. In 2005, a fire and stampede at the Mandhar Devi hilltop temple in western India left more than 250 dead.
"A separate queue was arranged for women and children and police was deployed at 2:00 a.m., so all the necessary arrangements were made," said Gulab Chand Kataria, the home minister of Rajasthan.
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Hindu-Christian clashes kill 1 in eastern India - washingtonpost.comSep 26, 2008 ... BHUBNESHWAR, India -- About 50 Christians armed with knives, sticks and stones hacked a Hindu man to death in the eastern Indian state of ...
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And another:
Faiths Clash, Displacing Thousands in East India - NYTimes.comDays of Christian-versus-Hindu retaliatory violence sparked by the killing of a Hindu leader has left ... Faiths Clash, Displacing Thousands in East India ...
It seems the Christians struck first, Killing the Hindu swammi.
Faiths Clash, Displacing Thousands in East India - NYTimes.comDays of Christian-versus-Hindu retaliatory violence sparked by the killing of a Hindu leader has left ... Faiths Clash, Displacing Thousands in East India ...
NEW DELHI - At least 3,000 people, most of them Christians, are living in government-run relief camps after days of Christian-versus-Hindu violence in eastern India, government officials said.
The government said that many people were also living in the jungle without any shelter or security because of the tensions, which erupted in violence after a Hindu leader was killed Saturday. At least 10 people, most of them Christians, have been killed since.
Christian community leaders say that at least 1,000 homes of Christians have been set on fire since Monday, rendering more than 5,000 people homeless.
Many of those living in the jungle were without food or water, said the Rev. Dibakar Parichha, a priest at the Roman Catholic church in Phulbani, a town in Orissa State. Father Parichha said that about 90 places of worship, including small churches and prayer halls, had been burned down. Local officials said the figure was about 20.
The violence has occurred in Kandhamal, a district in Orissa State that has a history of communal and ethnic clashes. The latest conflict started Saturday night, when unidentified armed men stormed a Hindu school in Kandhamal and killed the Hindu leader Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his followers.
The police suspected that Maoist rebels were responsible. But Hindus blamed Christians. In the retaliatory violence, 500 houses were burned. All nine towns in the district are under a curfew, and the police have license to shoot. At least two people have been killed in violent reprisals in other districts of Orissa, including a woman who died when an orphanage was burned down.
"We are supposed to take drastic action against whosoever indulges in violence," said R. P. Koche, the police chief in Kandhamal District. The local police force has been reinforced by 2,500 paramilitary troops, he said. The district magistrate, Dr. Krishna Kumar, said the situation was tense but under control, and that more than 200 people had been arrested.
Comment: The lower class Hindu people are converting to christianity in hopes that they can climb higher on the social ladder..Not because they believe in the religion..[:0]
I dont think I have to worry about my knees..[:0]