Side effects of India's Dharma: One woman killed in Vrindavan temple stampede

[Communist]

Failures in crowd control

etc etc etc

From The Times
October 1, 2008
168 devotees killed in India temple stampede



168 devotees killed in India temple stampede - Times Online

 

[afriend]

Kindly change the title..!!!

 

[Communist]

The unfortunate lady in question, someone's mother, sister, wife, victim of an accident, atleast made communists's day.

What has this forum become...

Please do not say this. I was never happy. She is like my mother. But see how and why she died.

 

[Communist]

Just a few day ago:

Nearly 150 dead in India temple stampede: police
Aug 3, 2008

SHIMLA, India (AFP) — Close to 150 Hindu worshippers, including scores of children, are confirmed to have died at a temple in northern India in the worst stampede in the country in three years, police said Monday.

Tens of thousands of people had thronged the Naina Devi shrine in Himachal Pradesh state to attend week-long religious festivities when the rumour of a landslide triggered panic among devotees on Sunday.

"The death toll as of now is 148, and 48 people are injured," a police spokesman said early Monday.

Police started hitting devotees with batons to check the commotion, but this only created further panic, witnesses said.

"People started pushing their way back and many women and children fell down. Whoever fell down was trampled upon by the surge of devotees," Mohni Singh, a local television journalist who was present at the site, told AFP.

The bodies of devotees were strewn along the steep four-kilometre (2.5-mile) path leading up to the temple, located about 150 kilometres from the state capital Shimla, witnesses said late Sunday.

Around 50 people with minor injuries were Monday getting treatment at a hospital in neighbouring Punjab state, where most of the deceased came from.
Punjab's chief minister, Prakash Singh Badal, announced the next of kin of the dead would receive 100,000 rupees (2,400 dollars) in compensation.

Despite the huge loss of life, officials said the pilgrimage was continuing only hours after the corpses were cleared.

The temple, devoted to goddess Naina Devi, is located at a hilltop in the the Himalayas and visitors have to climb a narrow stairway to access it. The shrine has been the site of previous deadly accidents.

In the early 1980s, more than 50 people died in a similar stampede. After that incident, authorities constructed separate passages for entry and exit.

Temple crushes are common during festivities in India, where crowd control management is often rudimentary at best.

Six people died in similar circumstances at a popular Hindu festival in July in the eastern state of Orissa, where about one million people had gathered in the town of Puri for an annual celebration.

In March, nine people were killed and many more injured at a religious gathering in central India when a railing broke at the temple premises, leading to a stampede among 100,000 devotees.

In one of India's deadliest stampedes, 257 people were killed during a Hindu pilgrimage in western Maharashtra state in January 2005.

AFP: Nearly 150 dead in India temple stampede: police

 

[Jako]

Please do not say this. I was never happy. She is like my mother. But see how and why she died.

yeah and so on........first learn to respect the belief of your 'mother'........then do this emosional attyachar.........i think swapnil provided you a list of the killed in mecca or so.......do you regard that as the failure of islam? I am sure the answer is NO.....SO WHY THIS HYPOCRYSY??

 

[shukla_swapnil]

From The Times
October 1, 2008
168 devotees killed in India temple stampede



168 devotees killed in India temple stampede - Times Online

So, whats the point. Whenever there is a major crowd these things do happen. Whether organizers are Hindus, Muslims or Christians. How can you single out one community? Did I ever say In India there have been none such incidents?

Here is the list of all major Stampedes. Take you pick and use some weird logic to derive which community is worst in management:
10 October 1872: 19 women and children were killed in a stampede and resulting stairs collapse in a synagogue in Ostrów Wielkopolski during the fast of Yom Kippur. Failure of gas lighting engulfed a synagogue balcony (apparently, the women's gallery) in darkness, causing panic among the women.
December 5, 1876: Crushes on gallery and balcony staircases during the Brooklyn Theater Fire delayed the evacuation of the building, a contributing factor in the deaths of at least 278 individuals.[2]
May 30, 1883: 12 people were killed and dozens injured after a woman tripped on the stairway at the Brooklyn Bridge, which had been open for eight days at the time. The crush was exacerbated by fears the bridge was about to collapse. [3]
June 16, 1883: Over 180 out of 1,100 children died in the Victoria Hall disaster in Sunderland, England when they stampeded down the stairs to collect gifts from the entertainers after the end of a variety show.
May 18, 1896: 1,389 people were killed and 1,300 injured in the Khodynka Tragedy, a crush of those desiring to get presents during the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II.
January 11, 1908: 16 children were killed in the Barnsley Public Hall Disaster in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, when someone in the hall shouted 'Fire!'
December 24, 1913: 73 people were crushed to death in the Italian Hall Disaster in Calumet, Michigan. This event is considered the legal source for the often-cited First Amendment limitation of "shouting fire in a crowded theater."
March 3, 1943: Bethnal Green 173 people were killed as people tried to get into an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green underground station, east London. Anti-aircraft fire reportedly frightened the crowd, causing them to run for the shelter. When a woman carrying a baby tripped on the stairs, others fell over her, triggering the crush. [3]
January 1, 1956: 124 people were killed during the New Year panic and stampede at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan.
January 2, 1971: 66 people were killed in the Second Ibrox Disaster, when the collapse of stairway barriers led to a crush as fans were leaving the stadium.
December 3, 1979: 11 people were killed during a crush at a The Who concert at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati. The incident led to a reduced use of festival seating at US venues. The event was later referenced on an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.
October 20, 1982: at least 66 people were killed in the Luzhniki disaster
May 29, 1985: 39 people were killed in the Heysel Stadium disaster
April 15, 1989: 96 people were killed in the Hillsborough Disaster at a football stadium in Sheffield, England.
January 13, 1991: At least 40 people were killed at a football match in Orkney, South Africa.
January 1, 1993: 21 people were killed and 48 injured as a huge crowd celebrated the New Year's Day at Lan Kwai Fong of Hong Kong.[4]
October 30, 1993: 73 student fans injured, six critically, by a crowd crush shortly after a football game at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Camp Randall Stadium.
May 1994: 270 people were killed at Jamarat Bridge in Mecca during the stoning of the Devil.
October 16, 1996: 82 killed, 147 injured on a steep stadium stairway prior to a World Cup qualifying match between Guatemala and Costa Rica in the Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
March, 1998: 70 people were killed when fans at Nepal's national football stadium stampede for the exits during a hailstorm.
April 1998: 119 people were killed at the Hajj in Mecca.
May 30, 1999: Niamiha disaster: 53 people died in a stampede at the Nemiga metro station in Minsk, Belarus.
April 11, 2001: 43 people were crushed in the Ellis Park Stadium disaster.
May 2001: 126 killed at a football match in Accra, Ghana after police fire tear gas at rioters.
December 21, 2001: 7 children, 10 to 14 years of age, were crushed to death due to a stampede on the stairway, leading to the entrance of a nightclub in Sofia, Bulgaria.
February 6, 2003: 21 people were killed in the stairway exit to E2, a nightclub in Chicago, after a pepper spray use on an upper-story dance floor.
February 20, 2003: 100 killed in The Station nightclub fire, many of them trampled.
February 2004: 251 people were killed at Jamarat Bridge in Mecca during the stoning of the devil.
September 1, 2004: Three die in Saudi shop stampede. [5]
January 2005: 265 people were killed as Hindu pilgrims stampede near a remote temple in Maharashtra, India.
August 31, 2005: 1000 people were killed in a Baghdad bridge stampede
December 2005: 42 people were killed as flood relief supplies were handed out to homeless refugees in southern India.
January 12, 2006: 345 killed at Jamarat Bridge in Mecca during the stoning of the devil.
February 4, 2006: 74 people were killed in the PhilSports Arena stampede in the Philippines. The place was the location of the first year anniversary of ABS-CBN's Wowowee.
September 12, 2006: Fifty-one killed and more than 200 injured at a stampede in Ibb Governorate, Yemen.[6][7]
June 2, 2007: 12 people were killed during a stampede at the end of a football game between Zambia and Republic of Congo in Chililabombwe, Zambia.[8]
October 3, 2007: At least 14 women were crushed to death at a train station in northern India.[9]
November 11, 2007: 3 people were killed and more than 30 injured at the Supermarket Carrefour in Chongqing, China when the shop was offering 20% discounts on cooking oil.[10]
March 27, 2008: 8 people were killed and 10 injured at an Indian temple crush during a pilgrimage.[11]
June 20, 2008: At least 12 people were killed and 13 injured at a Mexico City nightclub stampede during a police raid. [12]
July 13, 2008: 23 people died in the al-Mureikh stadium stampede disaster, during a graduation ceremony at Omdurman, Sudan.
August 3, 2008: At least 162 people were killed and 47 injured in a stampede at the Naina Devi temple in Himachal Pradesh in mountainous northern India after a rain shelter collapsed, which worshipers mistakenly took to be a landslide.
September 14, 2008: At least 11 people were killed when a riot was dispersed by tear gas during a football match in Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
September 30, 2008: 147 people were killed during the Chamunda Devi stampede at the Chamunda Devi temple in Jodhpur, India. The tragedy may have been triggered by a rumor that a bomb was planted in the temple complex. [13] Local authorities, however, blamed steep, slippery slopes leading to the temple.[1][14]
October 2, 2008: About 20 children died in a stampede in an overcrowded childrens dance hall in Tanzania.[4]
November 28, 2008: Jdimypai Damour died and at least four were injured when a stampede of shoppers broke down the door of a Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, New York, just before the store opened for its Black Friday sales. [5]
March 29, 2009: The Houphouët-Boigny Arena stampede. 19 people killed and 130 injured in a stampede at a football stadium in Ivory Coast.[6]

 

[Communist]

So, whats the point. Whenever there is a major crowd these things do happen. Whether organizers are Hindus, Muslims or Christians. How can you single out one community? Did I ever say In India there have been none such incidents?

But as a matter of the fact, in India temple stampede cases are always higher than everything. Even I wonder, why Indian Hindus voluntarily die in temples to go to the imaginary Swarg!!!

 

[Rabbit.Rabbit]

Stop trolling Communist.

 

[Communist]

Stop trolling Communist.

 

[shukla_swapnil]

But as a matter of the fact, in India temple stampede cases are always higher than everything. Even I wonder, why Indian Hindus voluntarily die in temples to go to the imaginary Swarg!!!

Ignored. Trolling and baiting of highest order.

Brainless rheotic. If this is not addressed by Mods I'll have serious doubts about impartiality of the forum.

 

[notsuperstitious]

Please do not say this. I was never happy. She is like my mother. But see how and why she died.

She dies because of a stampede.

Look at the title, she NOT your mother, but show some respect for the dead atleast. Her Dharma did not kill her.

 

[Communist]

Ignored. Trolling and baiting of highest order.

Brainless rheotic. If this is not addressed by Mods I'll have serious doubts about impartiality of the forum.

Whatever I said, I said in the context of the post mentioned below,

Btw i guess dieing in a temple for hindus is better than being

Still you have doubts?

 

[Communist]

She dies because of a stampede.

Look at the title, she NOT your mother, but show some respect for the dead atleast. Her Dharma did not kill her.

I never mentioned her dharma. I said India's dharma. Get the definition of Dharma.

And please stop the term 'mother'. Its taking another turn.

 

[Jako]

Whatever I said, I said in the context of the post mentioned below,



Still you have doubts?

why not post the whole one, coward......,....you are great in misinterpretetion.....,

 

[shukla_swapnil]

I never mentioned her dharma. I said India's dharma. Get the definition of Dharma.

And please stop the term 'mother'. Its taking another turn.

Also please explain the significance of Smily. I am sure communist smile on their mother's grave.