BARABANKI: Two devotees lost their lives while 29 others were injured in a stampede that broke out at a temple in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district in the early hours of Monday.
The incident occurred at the Awsaneshwar Mahadev temple in the Haidergarh area during a religious ritual, after panic spread over an electric shock in the temple premises.
The stampede occurred on the intervening night of July 27 and 28, when a large number of devotees had assembled for the 'Jalabhishek' on the third Monday of Sawan, a day considered especially sacred for worshipping Lord Shiva.