Two killed in panic at temple in India, say police
A group of monkeys jumped onto an electric wire outside the Ausaneshwar Mahadev Temple in the Barabanki region, causing it to snap and fall on a shed, triggering panic, district magistrate Shashank Tripathi said.
Nineteen people were electrocuted and injured, he said.
'Two people were killed in a stampede-like situation [at the temple] early in the morning,' a senior police officer, who did not want to be named, told Reuters.
The incident occurred about 2am (8.30pm GMT on Sunday), the area's chief medical officer said, when some people at the temple 'came in contact' with the electric wire, causing panic.
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