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AHMEDABAD - The Gujarat government has ordered high-level inquiry into the stampede at a Hindu shrine in Saurahstra region on Sunday evening, the fourth day of a five-day popular annual religious fair, in which seven people were killed and 40 others injured.
The state administration will give Rs100,000 each to the families of the deceased and Rs25,000 to those injured during the panic flight after the brakes of a four-wheeler failed on a narrow bridge at the seaside Bhavnath temple at the foothills of Mount Girnar near Junagadh, 300km from here.
The Junagadh municipal corporation has also announced Rs100,000 relief to the relatives of the two children, three women and two men killed in the mad rush. Additional Chief Secretary Varun Maira who heads the probe told Khaleej Times that at least 250,000 devotees had thronged the two-km serpentine walkway to the shrine when one of Gujarat’s worst tragedies in the recent past occurred.
No wonder, on Monday, elaborate security and other arrangements had been made to ensure that the last day of the mela passed off peacefully.
Some one million people visit Bhavnath temple every year on the Mahashivratri to pay their respects to the Hindu deity of Shiva and for a glimpse of the ash-covered, naked sadhus who many believe possess occult powers.
But after the tragic incident, the Akhil Bharatiya Sadhu Samaj, the main organisers of the fair, called off their famous, much-awaited, noisy procession and held only a symbolic procession on Monday.
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