01-26-2005, 12:01 AM
<b>300 killed, 200 injured in Satara stampede </b>
Tuesday, 25 January , 2005, 16:54
Wai: More than 300 devotees, mostly children and women, were today trampled to death and over 200 injured in a stampede triggered by short circuit at a hilltop temple during an annual pilgrimage in Maharashtra's Satara district.
The incident occurred at around 1 pm IST when an estimated three lakh devotees in a procession gathered to offer prayers at the sanctum sanctorum of the Mandradevi Temple on the occasion of full moon.
So far, over 200 bodies have been brought to various hospitals here by state transport buses. Most of the deaths were caused by suffocation after the persons had been trampled over.
Maharashtra Water Resources Minister Ajit Pawar told PTI that more than 300 were killed and the toll could go up.
Additional Director General of Police V N Deshmukh said a majority of the victims were women and children. The injured have been admitted to hospitals here.
Tuesday, 25 January , 2005, 16:54
Wai: More than 300 devotees, mostly children and women, were today trampled to death and over 200 injured in a stampede triggered by short circuit at a hilltop temple during an annual pilgrimage in Maharashtra's Satara district.
The incident occurred at around 1 pm IST when an estimated three lakh devotees in a procession gathered to offer prayers at the sanctum sanctorum of the Mandradevi Temple on the occasion of full moon.
So far, over 200 bodies have been brought to various hospitals here by state transport buses. Most of the deaths were caused by suffocation after the persons had been trampled over.
Maharashtra Water Resources Minister Ajit Pawar told PTI that more than 300 were killed and the toll could go up.
Additional Director General of Police V N Deshmukh said a majority of the victims were women and children. The injured have been admitted to hospitals here.