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The decease toll successful Saturday night’s stampede astatine the governmental rally of histrion and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam main Vijay astatine Velusamypuram successful Karur successful Tamil Nadu went up to 40 connected Sunday (September 28, 2025).
Kavin (31), who was undergoing attraction astatine the Government Medical College Hospital (GMCH) successful Karur, was the latest unfortunate succumbing to the injuries.
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According to authoritative sources, of the 40 dead, 17 were women and 14 men. Nine were children, including 5 girls. The identities of each victims person been established. The Director of Medical Education summoned peculiar aesculapian teams from Namakkal, Salem and different neighbouring districts and pressed them into work to transportation retired post-mortem.
The teams completed post-mortem connected each victims (39 successful each then) connected Saturday (September 27, 2025) nighttime itself. Before the dawn connected Sunday (September 28, 2025), the aesculapian assemblage authorities handed implicit the bodies of 35 retired of 39 victims to the bereaved families. The bodies of the different 4 were handed to their families during the day.
Sources said that 111 persons from the rally were nether attraction successful authorities and backstage hospitals. While 50 persons were undergoing attraction successful the Karur GMCH, 61 were being treated astatine assorted backstage hospitals successful Karur.
The GMCH was engaged passim the day, with the visits of leaders of assorted governmental parties. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin visited the injured astatine the GMCH aboriginal successful the morning. Landing astatine Tiruchi International Airport astatine 1.35 a.m. connected Sunday (September 28, 2025), helium arrived astatine the infirmary astatine 3.15 a.m.
He placed wreaths connected the bodies of the victims kept astatine the mortuary. He past met the injured astatine the infirmary and enquired astir the incident. Later, successful a gathering with the health, revenue, constabulary and different officials, Mr. Stalin directed them to supply the champion attraction to the injured.
Hours later, AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami visited the hospital and met the injured. He interacted with them and collected first-hand inputs from them astir the circumstances that led to the stampede. He besides met the members of the bereaved families and offered them his condolences.
Justice Aruna Jagadeesan, who has been tasked nether a one-member Commission of Inquiry the State authorities constituted to probe into the stampede, began her inquiries connected Sunday (September 28, 2025). She visited Velusamypuram, the stampede spot, to get first-hand inputs. She besides visited the GMCH and held a treatment with the officials of the wellness and different departments.
Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, erstwhile Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam, Tamil Nadu BJP president Nainar Nagendran, TNCC president K. Selvaperunthagai, and a big of different governmental leaders visited the injured astatine the infirmary and consoled the families of the deceased.
