{"id":1616,"date":"2025-06-29T07:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T07:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/three-killed-over-a-dozen-hospitalized-as-crowd-surges-at-eastern-india-hindu-festival\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T07:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T07:39:17","slug":"three-killed-over-a-dozen-hospitalized-as-crowd-surges-at-eastern-india-hindu-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/three-killed-over-a-dozen-hospitalized-as-crowd-surges-at-eastern-india-hindu-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Three killed, over a dozen hospitalized as crowd surges at eastern India Hindu festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\n\tNEW DELHI: Three people were killed and more than a dozen hospitalized Sunday following a sudden crowd surge at a popular Hindu festival in eastern India, a senior government official said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;There was a sudden crowd surge of devotees for having a glimpse of the Hindu deities during which few people either fainted, felt suffocated or complained of breathlessness,&rdquo; said Siddharth Shankar Swain, the top government official in Puri.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSwain said that 15 people were rushed to a local government hospital, where three people were pronounced dead and the other 12 were discharged. Autopsies are planned for the deceased to determine the exact cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTens of thousands of devotees gathered in the coastal town early Sunday at Shree Gundicha Temple near the famous Jagannatha Temple to catch a glimpse of the deities onboard three chariots, Swain said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe coastal temple town of Puri comes alive each year with the grand &ldquo;Rath Yatra,&rdquo; or chariot festival, in one of the world&rsquo;s oldest and largest religious processions. The centuries-old festival involves Hindu deities being taken out of the temple and driven in colorfully decorated chariots.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe festival is one of Hinduism&rsquo;s most revered events and draws hundreds of thousands of devotees annually from across India and the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>                       <!-- \n                        \n\n<div id=\"POSTQUARE_WIDGET_122392\"><\/div>\n\n --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><sub>Three killed, over a dozen hospitalized as crowd surges at eastern India Hindu festival<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Three people were killed and more than a dozen hospitalized Sunday following a sudden crowd surge at a popular Hindu festival in eastern India, a senior government official said. &ldquo;There was a sudden crowd surge of devotees for having a glimpse of the Hindu deities during which few people either fainted, felt suffocated&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/three-killed-over-a-dozen-hospitalized-as-crowd-surges-at-eastern-india-hindu-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Three killed, over a dozen hospitalized as crowd surges at eastern India Hindu festival&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}