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Indian temple stampede kills hundreds | |
2005-01-26 | |
More than 300 people have died after being crushed in a stampede involving thousands of Hindus fleeing fires during a pilgrimage to a temple in western India. Another 200 were injured in Tuesday's incident, which happened on a narrow staircase leading to the hilltop temple in the village of Wai, about 250km south of Bombay, according to police superintendent Chandrakant Kumbhar. Kumbhar said devotees set fire to shops in the crowded passageway after they heard rumours that some pilgrims had slipped on the temple floor and were trampled to death by others who were propelled forward by the mass of people behind them.
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Posted by:Fred |
#10 LOL Bulldog. |
Posted by: Seafarious 2005-01-26 12:44:44 PM |
#9 "I never met an Indian I didn't like. With the possible exception of Kahil Gibran." -- Bill the Buffalo |
Posted by: mojo 2005-01-26 12:43:48 PM |
#8 Is she single then? |
Posted by: Bulldog 2005-01-26 12:40:47 PM |
#7 Well look on the bright side at least Mola Ram is dead. |
Posted by: Rightwing 2005-01-26 9:48:35 AM |
#6 I used to be married to her... |
Posted by: Fred 2005-01-26 9:14:02 AM |
#5 I knew a girl like that once...... |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-01-26 9:06:41 AM |
#4 Kali: One of the manifestations and cult titles of the wife of Shiva and mother goddess Devi, especially in her malevolent role as a goddess of death and destruction, depicted as black, red-eyed, blood-stained, and wearing a necklace of skulls. |
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-01-26 8:22:50 AM |
#3 I thought that Kali was more into blood sacrifice rather than random acts of violence? Cutting out hearts or somesuch. Or is that just Indiana Jones? |
Posted by: Jame Retief 2005-01-26 7:17:57 AM |
#2 Wonder if it's a Kali cult? Setting fires and causing destruction are right up her alley. |
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-01-26 6:54:17 AM |
#1 Like the graphic, Fred. I note that the BBC yesterday and al Jazeera today both like to think that Hindus stampede. I'll bet they think that white people and Arabs, respectively, only crush. Can you imagine an alJ header: "Hajj stampede kills 300"? |
Posted by: Bulldog 2005-01-26 4:18:26 AM |