Major stampede incidents at religious places in past decade

Here's a look at some of the recent incidents that have occured at religious places.

Here's a look at some of the recent incidents that have occured at religious places:


February 11, 2013: 37 pilgrims killed and scores injured in a stampede at a railway station in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad. The devotees were headed home from the Kumbh Mela.

November 19, 2012: 18 killed and several injured in a stampede on a bridge over the Ganga river during Chhath Puja in Patna, Bihar.

January 14, 2011: 104 pilgrims died on Makara Jyothi Day at Sabarimala in Kerala.

March 4, 2010: 63 people, mostly women and children, killed in a stampede at a temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh.

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September 30, 2008: 224 pilgrims died in a stampede at Chamunda Devi temple in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur.

August 3, 2008: 150 worshippers killed in a stampede at Naina Devi temple sparked by rumours of a landslide in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh.

January 25, 2005: 340 people were killed in a stampede at Mandhar Devi temple Maharashtra's Satara district. The accident happened when some people fell down on the steps made slippery by devotees breaking coconuts.

August 27, 2003: 40 pilgrims killed and 125 injured in a stampede at Kumbh Mela in Nasik, Maharashtra.

(Agencies)