Nearly 89 people are feared killed and over 100 injured in a stampede near a temple at Ratangarh in Madhya Pradesh's Datia district on Sunday.
"89 people were killed in the stampede on the bridge over Sindh river leading to the temple at Ratangarh, where lakhs of devotees had congregated, following rumours by some unidentified persons that it was collapsing," Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, Chambal Range, D K Arya said.
The stampede was caused by rumours that a bridge they were crossing was about to collapse. Earlier there was no bridge on the river leading to the Ratan Mata Temple. Devotees used boats to reach the temple. But five years ago, the MP government decided to build a bridge after over 100 people drowned in the river when their boat capsized.
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