Janmashtami 2024: Stampede Like Situation At Patna ISKCON Temple During Celebration; Devotees Injured | Watch

Patna: Heavy rush of devotees on the ISKCON temple in Patna on the party of the Janmashtami festival created a stampede-like scenario on Monday night, a police officer observed. Some devotees would steadily have suffered minor injuries, even as the police introduced the scenario lower than arrange all of a sudden, Patna SSP Rajeev Mishra told reporters.

“An marvelous diversity of devotees thronged the ISKCON temple on the party of Janmashtami festival within the night. An adequate diversity of defense personnel had already been deployed there. We engaged elevated personnel when the scenario turned chaotic because the devotees tried to outpace one every other. It became a not common time for the defense personnel. The scenario became, then as soon as more, quickly introduced lower than arrange. It became now now not a full-blown stampede,” Mishra observed.

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Video clips that went viral on social media established defense personnel looking for to arrange the onrushing devotees on the temple. A genuinely great diversity of them fell on the ground and they had been helped by the defense personnel.

“The scenario is clearly lower than arrange. Our pinnacle priority is to arrange the rush of devotees first. Adult females folks defense personnel have also been deployed in great numbers,” observed the SSP. To a topic, he observed, “Somewhat a form of the devotees would steadily have suffered minor injuries.”

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Patna District administration also issued a assertion on the incident. “There became no stampede on the ISKCON temple. Handy rigidity became used to take a payment these devotees who tried to enter temple premises by breaking police barricades. The scenario is clearly lower than arrange”.

As a minimum seven humans had been killed and 16 others injured in a stampede at Baba Siddheshwar Nath Temple in Bihar’s Jehanabad district beforehand this month.

(With inputs from corporations)