naina devi
Since it was the Shravan Ashtami mela on the second day of the auspicious Navratras , the crowd of devotees, more than 25,000 persons, thronged the popular hilltop shrine. The shrine has little space for such a huge congregation that waited in a serpentine queue to pay obeisance to the deity
According to some accounts the railing collapsed first, leading to panic and the stampede, while others maintained that the stampede led to the collapse of the railing.
which cost more than 140 lives and majority of them are children and women.
Very said event
