At least three persons died and several were injured on Sunday morning after a stampede broke out near a temple in Odisha’s Puri district during the Jagannath Rath Yatra festival, The Times of India reported.
The stampede took place between 4 am and 5 am, when a large number of devotees had gathered near the Shree Gundicha Temple to see deities on their chariots that had arrived from the Jagannath Temple in Puri.
Those who died have been identified as Premakanta Mohanty, Basanti Sahoo and Prabhati Das, the newspaper reported.
The injured persons have been admitted to a nearby hospital. Six of them are critical, PTI quoted Puri District Collector Siddharth S Swain as saying.
During the Rath Yatra, the sibling deities Balabhadra, Subhadra and Jagannath are carried in chariots from the Jagannath temple to the Gundicha temple located 2.6 kms away, where they stay for nine days.
This year, the festival began on June 27 and will end on July 5.
On Sunday morning, a large number of devotees had gathered at Saradha Bali near the Shree Gundicha Temple to see the deities. Witnesses said that the situation escalated when two trucks carrying wooden logs tried to enter the area amid the crowds, The Times of India reported.
“The narrow congregation site, combined with limited police presence and scattered palm-log ladders...
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