Pilgrims mostly women and children, have been killed in a stampede, while visiting a temple for a popular Hindu festival to honor the Hindu mother goddess Durga on the last day of the popular 10-day Navaratra festival.
Local officials reportedly said that some 89 pilgrims, were killed in the stampede at the Hindu festival in central India
Many were crushed after panic broke out on a bridge near the Ratangarh temple in Madhya Pradesh state, that the bridge would collapse. Others died when they jumped from the bridge.
Eyewitness Atul Chaudhary: “We saw people jumping into the river”
Officials said the stampede may have been sparked by a rumour that the bridge was about to collapse.
Hundreds of thousands had gathered near the town of Datia for the festival.
Local devotee Atul Chaudhary, who survived the crush, told BBC Hindi there had been a couple of thousand people on the bridge.
He heard screams, and people began rushing to get off the bridge.
Relatives crowded a state-run hospital to take the bodies after the autopsies and searched frantically for loved ones among the injured people being treated there. Volunteers and residents pulled many bodies out of the Sindh River, where people had jumped when the chaos started Sunday.
Hundreds of thousands of devotees had thronged the remote Ratangarh village temple in Madhya Pradesh state's Datia district
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