A stampede of pilgrims returning from one of India’s most popular Hindu festivals killed more than 100 people and injured 25 others in southern India tonight.
The stampede was set off when a group of pilgrims in a jeep drove into a crowd of worshippers walking along a narrow path in a hilly forest as they returned from offering prayers at the Sabarimala shrine in the state of Kerala, said local police official Sanjay Kumar.
Deadly stampedes are relatively common at temples in India, where large crowds - sometimes hundreds of thousands of people — gather in tiny areas with no safety measures or crowd control.
AP