According to the district administration, the stampede occurred at 5 am when people were trying to jump queue in order to get closer to the temple.
Ranchi: At least 11 people were killed and 50 injured in a stampede at a temple in Jharkhand’s Deoghar town early Monday, police said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was “pained at loss of lives”.
NEW DELHI — A stampede outside a temple early on Monday morning during a Hindu religious festival in eastern India left 10 pilgrims dead, government officials said.
At least 10 people have been killed and 20 injured in a stampede at a temple in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, officials say.
Pilgrims have been marking a Hindu religious festival in Deoghar town.
It happened as pilgrims tried to make their way into the complex, a district official told BBC Hindi.
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