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Brihadeeswarar temple fire is a fire accident that occurred during the consecration of the Brihadeeswarar Temple on 7 June 1997 in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India. The accident was caused by a spark that caught up the thatch. A stampede occurred due to the panic created, and a total of 48 people were killed and left more than 200 people injured.
In October 2020, Babu Lal Vaishnav, a 50-year-old Hindu temple priest was killed in Bukna village, Rajasthan. [2] [3] Kailash Meena allegedly burnt Vaishnav alive after Vaishnav tried to stop Meena from trespassing on land belonging to the village temple. [4] [5]
Post-mortem examinations conducted on victims of the Naina Devi temple stampede confirmed that the deaths were caused by asphyxiation. Post-mortem reports of 101 bodies out of a total of 141 victims taken to the civil hospital at Anandpur Sahib in Punjab, 18 km from the site, have indicated compression of the chest causing asphyxiation and ...
Deaths in Hindu Temples, holy place or while going to it, because of Natural Disaster, terrorist attack etc., other than above list of Human stampedes. Location Date Killed Injured Ratangarh Mata Temple, Datia, MP [26] 1 October 2006: 56: 200+ [citation needed] 2013 Kedarnath Temple, Uttarakhand: 14 June 2013: 6,000+ 10,000+ Raghunath Temple ...
The crowd crush is the worst recorded accident to have occurred in Sabarimala. In the past on 14 January 1952, 66 Ayyappa pilgrims were burnt to death when two fireworks sheds caught fire, while on the same day in 1999, 52 pilgrims were killed following a crowd crush during their return after witnessing the Makara Jyothi at Pamba.
A human stampede occurred on 30 September 2008, at the Chamunda Devi temple in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, in which 224 people were killed [3] [4] [5] and more than 425 injured. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The 15th-century temple is dedicated to the goddess Chamunda Devi [ 8 ] and is located within the premises of Mehrangarh Fort .
In 1952, 68 people were killed after a firecracker explosion at Sabarimala temple. [9] On 10 April 2016, two groups of devotees set off fireworks while thousands participated in the festival at Puttingal temple. [9] The temple's authorities told police that they had verbal permission from the district authorities. [9]
On the occasion of Rama Navami, a large number of Hindus visited Beleshwar Mahadev Temple, which sits atop an unused 40-foot (12 m) [2] stepwell covered by a grill and tiles. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] The weight of the crowd caused the cover to collapse, according to Shivraj Singh Chouhan , Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh . [ 4 ]