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The Andhra Pradesh constabulary connected Sunday (November 2, 2025) barred devotees from entering the Lord Venkateswara Swamy temple present successful Srikakulam district, pursuing the tragic incidental successful which 9 radical were crushed to death during a spiritual gathering determination erstwhile day.
Nine people--eight women and a boy--were killed and respective were injured astatine this temple successful Kasibugga municipality connected Saturday (November 1). Several radical were hospitalised with limb fractures and breathlessness.
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According to the survivors, the lone gross was closed, and a radical of devotees who were allowed into the temple for darshan earlier fell, on with a breached grill, abruptly onto a ample fig of radical waiting beneath the staircase, starring to the tragedy.
"We person barred devotees from entering the temple successful presumption of the tragedy," Srikakulam territory superintendent of police, K.V. Maheshwara Reddy told PTI.
Nine bodies were sent for postmortem and aboriginal handed implicit to their families, helium said, adding that 2 persons who sustained superior injuries are present stable, and others person been discharged.
SP said the temple organisers neither sought mandatory permissions nor applied for constabulary extortion earlier conducting the event.
"It is mandatory for temples oregon spiritual institutions to pass constabulary successful beforehand for assemblage management, irrespective of the turnout," helium said.
According to the SP, the Lord Venkateswara Swamy temple is simply a backstage constitution and was operating without due approvals. The organisers reportedly failed to comply with information protocols. Meanwhile, constabulary person registered a lawsuit nether applicable sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
