Temple stampede in India’s Andhra Pradesh kills at least 9

Authorities pledge disciplinary action, saying the privately-run temple had not secured authoritative approvals.

A stampede astatine a temple successful confederate India’s Andhra Pradesh authorities has killed astatine slightest 9 radical and injured others, according to officials.

The incidental took spot arsenic worshippers crowded into the Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple successful Kasibuga to observe a Hindu spiritual ceremonial connected Saturday.

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“An enquiry volition beryllium conducted into the tragic incident,” said Pawan Kalyan, the state’s lawman main minister, putting the decease toll astatine nine.

The deceased see 8 women and a young boy. At slightest 1 much idiosyncratic was earnestly injured.

According to section officials and media, astir 25,000 radical gathered astatine the venue, acold much than the temple was equipped to handle.

There were nary abstracted introduction and exit points, and determination was reportedly chaos erstwhile a railing collapsed nether assemblage pressures arsenic devotees climbed to the elevated first-floor temple premises.

Local authorities said the temple is privately managed and not nether the authoritative endowments department. They said it had not applied for oregon secured the required authoritative approvals, and authorities were not informed of the event, truthful they could not unafraid it.

The bureau of Prime Minister Narendra Modi said helium was “pained” by the stampede.

The bureau said an ex gratia outgo of 200,000 Indian rupees (about $2,260) volition beryllium paid to the families of the deceased, portion the injured volition person 50,000 rupees ($565) each.

Addressing a section governmental gathering, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu pledged strict enactment against those liable for the stampede.

Saturday’s stampede is not an isolated incident, with galore happening already successful 2025, including those astatine temples.

But specified calamities are not constricted to spiritual gatherings; successful precocious September, a assemblage crush astatine a rally for a fashionable Indian actor-turned-politician successful the confederate authorities of Tamil Nadu killed astatine slightest 39 people

Another incidental successful June killed astatine slightest 11 people extracurricular a cricket stadium successful the confederate Indian authorities of Karnataka.