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RE:Are Thamizhians Hindus?
by oliver valan on Aug 04, 2008 05:17 PM

ANANDPUR SAHIB, India - Family members moved through row after row of bodies overnight in a grim search for their loved ones among the 145 people killed in a deadly stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple. In many cases, families lost several relatives who were killed together as they went to the Naina Devi Temple in the foothills of the Himalayas Sunday to celebrate Shravan Navratras, a nine-day festival that honors the Hindu goddess Shakrti, or divine mother.Mukesh Chabba went to the temple with 11 family members to celebrate the recent birth of his son. Only five of them survived.The 31-year-old farmer lost both of his parents, his wife, his 2-year-old daughter, his brother and sister-in-law and their 17 year old daughter. He saved his infant son by passing him to a young man who was on a ledge above the main path, he said."There was a lot of shouting and pushing. People fell down and could not get up. They just suffocated," he said.Authorities said an investigation will be launched and offered compensation to families of the victims.By dawn Monday, only 12 bodies remained unidentified at the hospital in Anandpur Sahaib, a town near the temple where the disaster occurred. Volunteer workers from nearby temples helped relatives load the victims onto vehicles to be taken home for cremation.Police said 145 people, many of them women and children, were killed and 37 injured after rumors of a landslide caused thousands of panicked pilgrims to stampede at the shrine. An est

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