Seven killed in stampede at temple in Bihar’s Jehanabad

Some local residents have blamed poor crowd management and police lathicharge for the incident. “There had been common routes for people visiting the temple and returning from there. As number of devotees started swelling ahead of onset of fourth Monday of Saawan month, police could not manage crowd and instead opened lathicharge that might have caused the stampede”, said Suman Kumar, relative of an injured kanwariya.

Jehanabad District Magistrate Alankrita Pandey said: ‘We confirm seven deaths. We are looking into cause of the incident. We are getting the injured treated at the Jehanabad hospital”.