Posted on 10/03/2014 12:02:45 PM PDT by markomalley
A stampede at a popular religious festival in eastern India on Friday left 32 people dead and several dozen injured, an official said.
Thousands of people had gathered to celebrate the Dussehra festival at a ground in the city of Patna in Bihar state, when panic erupted, officials said.
It was unclear what triggered the stampede, which occurred as crowds were leaving the venue after watching giant effigies of the Hindu demon king Ravana set ablaze for Dussehra, which celebrates the victory of good over evil.
"We have information that 32 people including women and children died due to a stampede," in state capital Patna, Bihar's additional director general of police, Gupteshwar Pandey, told AFP.
Well, seeing as how they consider the cows as sacred and all, I can see where they would get herds big enough to make stampedes a problem.
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