'No One Was Standing In A Queue': Devotees Flag Mismanagement After 8 Killed In Bihar Temple Stampede
Eight devotees, all of them women, were killed and over a dozen injured in a crowd crush at a temple in Bihar's Nalanda on Tuesday.
The stampede took place at Mata Sheetla 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.
"It is always crowded here on Tuesday. People come for Sheetla Mata's darshan. We too have come from Patna for darshan. But a stampede broke out, and people died. It happened due to mismanagement...An ambulance has reached here. It is so crowded here. Administration is not here," Mamata Devi, a devotee, said.
