{"id":72837,"date":"2025-05-03T11:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=72837"},"modified":"2025-05-03T11:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:17:49","slug":"6-crushed-to-death-in-temple-stampede-in-indias-goa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/6-crushed-to-death-in-temple-stampede-in-indias-goa\/","title":{"rendered":"6 crushed to death in temple stampede in India\u2019s Goa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOA: Six people were crushed to death at a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/india-arrests-750-as-third-woman-enters-flashpoint-temple-in-kerala\/\">Hindu temple<\/a> in India\u2019s coastal state of Goa, officials said on Saturday, after thousands gathered for a popular fire-walking ritual.<\/p>\n<p>Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said in a statement that he was \u201cdeeply saddened by the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/six-dead-in-indias-tirupati-temple-stampede\/\">tragic stampede<\/a>\u201d at Lairai Devi temple in the village of Shirgao in the early hours of Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix people died even before they could be brought to the hospital,\u201d Sawant told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>He visited the hospital and said that \u201call possible support\u201d would be given to the families of those killed or injured.<\/p>\n<p>Vishwajit Rane, Goa state health minister, said \u201capproximately 80\u201d people were injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive are critical and on ventilator support, while the remaining are being treated in the specially created emergency ward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s office expressed \u201ccondolences to those who lost their loved ones\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Lairai Zatra is a key Hindu celebration in Goa and is marked by a fire-walking ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Deadly stampedes are notoriously common in Indian religious festivals.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, at least 30 people were killed in an early morning crush at the\u00a0Kumbh Mela, a Hindu mega-festival in the northern city of Prayagraj.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOA: Six people were crushed to death at a Hindu temple in India\u2019s coastal state of Goa, officials said on Saturday, after thousands gathered for a popular fire-walking ritual. Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said in a statement that he was \u201cdeeply saddened by the tragic stampede\u201d at Lairai Devi temple in the village of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":72838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20984,139,28378],"class_list":["post-72837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-goa","tag-india","tag-temple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72837","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72839,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72837\/revisions\/72839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}