{"id":601,"date":"2008-08-03T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2008\/08\/03\/updated-corrected-re-confusion-between-naina-devi-and-nainital-the-naina-devi-temple-stampede-in-india\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:55:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:55:13","slug":"updated-corrected-re-confusion-between-naina-devi-and-nainital-the-naina-devi-temple-stampede-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2008\/08\/03\/updated-corrected-re-confusion-between-naina-devi-and-nainital-the-naina-devi-temple-stampede-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated (corrected re confusion between naina Devi and Nainital): The Naina Devi temple stampede in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News reports today report a tragedy in <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Himachal<\/span> <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Pradesh<\/span> when a stampede at a Hindu temple at <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Naina<\/span> Devi led to at least 147 people, most of them women and children being crushed to death.  A further 37 people were injured.  Initial, unconfirmed, reports suggest that the trigger for the stampede was a rumour of a landslide.  Thus, for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynews.in\/fullstory.aspx?storyid=8388\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">MyNews<\/span>.in<\/a> reported that:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size:85%\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><span>&#8220;Additional District Magistrate C P <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Verma<\/span> said that the tragedy took place when people gathered at one place in the temple following rumours of landslide and rolling down of stones from a nearby hilltop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idINIndia-34808320080804\">Subsequent reports<\/a> have clarified this somewhat, suggesting that some stones fell out of a retaining wall, which then triggered the panic.<\/p>\n<p>The <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Naina<\/span> Devi temple has a long history of landslides, which may at least in part explain the rumour.  The temple was destroyed in a landslide in 1880 that killed 151 people, a fact that may have been in the back of the mind of the pilgrims when the rumour spread, though this is of course just speculation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Interestingly, in 1981 the same site suffered another stampede that killed 53 pilgrims.  This was also triggered by rumours of an impending landslide.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News reports today report a tragedy in Himachal Pradesh when a stampede at a Hindu temple at Naina Devi led to at least 147 people, most of them women and children being crushed to death. A further 37 people were injured. Initial, unconfirmed, reports suggest that the trigger for the stampede was a rumour of a landslide. Thus, for example, MyNews.in reported that: &#8220;Additional District Magistrate C P Verma said &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[333,5,442],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-333","tag-india","tag-stampede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}