People die at Oneness Temple opening
A day after the stampede which claimed five lives and left more than 100 persons injured, some of them critically, an eerie calm hangs heavily on the 500-acre campus of the ‘Oneness Temple’ which was due for consecration on April 26.
The tragedy occurred on Tuesday when the preliminary ceremonies for the inauguration of the temple—‘Kalki Bhagavan Deeksha Peetham’–were under way amid a huge congregation of about four lakh followers of the Kalki cult drawn from different parts of the country, including some from abroad, converging at the complex having arrangements only for half the crowd.
Melee at water pointAccording to initial investigations, the stampede occurred when the thirsty devotees, in the absence of any proper facility for drinking water, pushed and jostled with each in frenzy at a water point.
In the resultant melee, many persons, including women, aged and infirm were pushed and trampled upon by the surging crowd, leaving five persons dead and more than 100 injured. SOURCE.
