Two elderly women devotees were hospitalised after sustaining bleeding injuries during a stampede in the Shree Jagannth Temple here on Saturday.
The incident happened at about 12.30 pm on the stairs of the Bimala temple located in the Jagannath Temple complex. The temple has been experiencing heavy rush of devotees during these last five days of the Kartik Brat known as Panchuka. The incident happened when a senior police officer along with his family members was escorted to the Bimala temple. The escorting police personnel pushed their way through the crowd of devotees, as a result of which the two women fell down from the high steps.
The injured were rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital by the temple’s emergency ambulance. One of the injured was identified as Annapurna Swain (65) of Nagpur under the Balikuda police station.