Eight devotees, all of them women, were killed and over a dozen were injured in a crowd crush at a temple in Bihar’s Nalanda on Tuesday.
The stampede took place at Sheetlaashtami Temple in Maghra Village, which is nearly five kilometres from Bihar Sharif in Nalanda district. As this was the last Tuesday of the month of Chaitra, a massive crowd of devotees had gathered at the temple.
Disturbing pictures from the accident site showed scores of women lying unconscious on the ground.