Puri, July 18 (ANI): Two women were killed and more than 20 others were injured in a minor stampede during Lord Jagannath’s Rath Yatra at Puri on Saturday. The injured have been reportedly admitted to the district headquarters hospital and two of them were later shifted to the SCB Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack. According to media reports, the stampede was the result of a sudden surge in the crowd surrounding the chariot as it was proceeding towards the Gundicha Temple. Amid tight security, more than two million devotees thronged holy town of Puri in Odisha to attend the annual chariot festival of the deities of the famed Lord Jagannath temple on Saturday. The annual festival, which has been celebrated for the past 1,000 years, attracts millions of visitors from across the world.
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