Debabrata Mohanty, Bhubaneswar
A forty five-year-old girl was killed and 20 folks had been injured in a stampede that broke out after over two lakh devotees thronged a bridge over the Mahanadi river on the event of Makar Sankranti on Saturday afternoon, police mentioned.
The stampede on Gopinathpur-Badamba T Bridge in Athagarh space when the gang gathered for Makar Mela. The three.4km lengthy bridge additionally connects Singhanath shrine situated in the midst of the river.
Chief minister Naveen Patnaik expressed grief over the incident and introduced an ex-gratia of ₹ 5 lakh for the subsequent of kin of the deceased.
Athagarh sub collector Hemanta Swain mentioned the injured had been shifted to SCB Medical Faculty and Hospital in Cuttack for remedy. The deceased was recognized as Anjana Swain.
Cuttack further superintendent of police (ASP) Ranjit Prusty mentioned the full variety of devotees gathered on the spot exceeded no less than 4 occasions from what the administration anticipated.
“Greater than two lakh folks had turned up on the shrine,” Prusty mentioned.
Officers mentioned the Mela was not held for 2 years in view of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Family of the injured present process remedy at SCB medical school and hospital in Cuttack held the police administration liable for the tragedy.
“Nearly 75-80 policemen had been on the spot which was grossly insufficient to deal with the massive crowd. The cops had been at their wit’s finish and lots of merely ran away seeing the stampede,” a relative of an injured particular person mentioned, searching for anonymity.
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