{"id":61878,"date":"2025-01-09T11:38:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T06:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=61878"},"modified":"2025-01-09T11:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T06:38:59","slug":"six-dead-in-indias-tirupati-temple-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/six-dead-in-indias-tirupati-temple-stampede\/","title":{"rendered":"Six dead in India&#8217;s Tirupati temple stampede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">HYDERABAD (Reuters): At least six people were killed and several others injured late on Wednesday in a stampede in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/indian-religious-event-stampede-claims-at-least-87-lives-report\/\">southern India<\/a> after thousands of devotees queued outside one of the most visited Hindu temples to collect tokens for a free visit to the deity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Authorities had set up counters at a school to issue tokens from Thursday for devotees to visit The Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple, popularly known as the Tirupati, in Andhra Pradesh state during Jan 10-19, a period considered auspicious by the locals, the Indian Express reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">People started queuing from as early as Wednesday for the tokens to visit the almost 2,000-year-old temple and pushed and jostled leading to the stampede, according to the office of the chief minister of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;Pained by the stampede in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. My thoughts are with those who have lost their near and dear ones,&#8221; Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on X.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-area\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/584300-six-dead-in-india-temple-stampede\">\n<p>Deadly accidents are common at places of worship in India during major religious festivals due to poor crowd management and safety lapses.<\/p>\n<p>In July last year, 121 people were killed in northern Uttar Pradesh state during a Hindu religious gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Another 112 people died in 2016 after a huge explosion caused by a banned fireworks display marking the Hindu New Year at a temple in southern Kerala state.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s incident comes days before the start of the Kumbh Mela, a six-week Hindu festival of prayer and sacred bathing expected to be the largest religious gathering in history.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 400 million pilgrims are expected to attend, according to organisers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"btArticleSideMeta\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD (Reuters): At least six people were killed and several others injured late on Wednesday in a stampede in southern India after thousands of devotees queued outside one of the most visited Hindu temples to collect tokens for a free visit to the deity. Authorities had set up counters at a school to issue tokens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":61879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25609],"class_list":["post-61878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-india-tirupati-stampede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61880,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61878\/revisions\/61880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}