Indore accident

At least 14 dead after falling into stepwell as floor of Indore temple collapses The 50-year-old stepwell’s roof, also the floor of the temple, caved in due to the weight of too many Ram Navmi devotees. The State government has ordered a probe into the incident. March 30, 2023 04:49 pm | Updated March 31, 2023 08:11 am IST - RAIPUR At least 14 devotees, ten of them women, were killed when the roof of a stepwell at a temple in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore collapsed on Thursday morning. Among the 19 others who were rescued alive following the mishap, some are said to be in critical condition. The victims were part of a crowd that had gathered at the Shri Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal Temple in Indore’s Patel Nagar area for Ram Navmi celebrations. The roof of the stepwell, that also served as the temple floor and was made of concrete slabs supported by iron rods, caved in due to the combined weight of too many devotees. The Madhya Pradesh Government has ordered a probe into the incident and announced an ex-gratia amount of ₹5 lakh to be paid to the next of kin of the deceased, while ₹50,000 will be given to the injured. ‘Guilty will be punished’ “It was an old step well which was covered. 19 people have been rescued alive. This was an extremely tragic incident when 11 bodies were taken out from there [the step-well]. Of those who were rescued, one or two are said to be critical,” Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra said, giving the status of the victims around 5:45 p.m. on T...

Indore: The death toll in Indore temple stepwell collapse has increased to 35 on Friday morning as the search operation to trace persons reported missing after the tragic incident was on. Several people fell into a well as roof of Shri Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal Temple caved in during Ram Navami celebration in the He added, "The administration had to face a lot of trouble in the rescue operation. The accident occurred due to the collapse of the roof over the well. During the hawan, more than 50 people fell into the well. Out of which 35 people have died. Most of the people belongs to the same family. Many children are also involved in the accident." The accident took place when devotees were sitting on the floor during hawan at the temple. Under the floor was a Bawadi (stepwell). The cement seal of the stepwell collapsed and devotees fell into the well. The old well was covered with a concrete slab in the courtyard of Lord Shiva temple in Patel Nagar. The concrete caved in due to load as a huge number of devotees turned up at the temple, Bhanwarkuan police said. The victims fell into the water and clung to the hanging debris of the concrete and iron mesh to save themselves.

Indore, May 2 (PTI) A 58-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly killing two people and injuring two others by running over their two-wheeler while driving under the influence of alcohol in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore city, police said. Ajit Lalwani, a local businessman, was arrested for running over four people riding a scooter on the city’s YN Road late on April 29, said Kamlesh Sharma, in-charge of Tukoganj police station. Sandeep Gupta (45) and five-year-old Advik Gupta were killed in the accident, while two other children were injured, he said. The police had earlier registered an FIR under section 304-A (death due to negligent driving) and other provisions of the Indian Penal Code, and they have now added section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), the official said. Lalwani was produced before a local court on Tuesday evening and has been remanded to judicial custody, he said. Meanwhile, visuals of the accident have gone viral on social media, in which the accused is seen getting out of the car and standing on the side after the accident, while the victims are seen lying on the ground. PTI HWP ADU ARU ARU This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content. Support Our Journalism India needs fair, non-hyphenated and questioning journalism, packed with on-ground reporting. ThePrint – with exceptional reporters, columnists and editors – is doing just that. Sustaining this needs support from wond...

TNN / May 09, 2023, 10:30 (IST) At least 15 people, including 3 children and 6 women, were killed and 24 others were injured when a passenger bus fell off a bridge in Oon police station area of Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. The bus was on its way to Indore. MP govt has announced compensation for the victims.

How the concrete slab caved inAs many as 35 people had gathered to celebrate Ram Navami at Beleshwar Mahadev temple and were sitting for hawan when the slab caved in and they fell into a deep bawri filled with water. District collector Ilayaraja T said 14 bodies were recovered. As many as 19 people were rescued. Several feared trapped; rescue operations on "Manual checks have been carried out by the team. We are trying to remove the water from the well using motors and machines and are checking if people are trapped in the mud," the district collector told TOI. All the injured, including a few children, were sent to a private hospital in Bhanwarkuan area where they were undergoing treatment. Police said that a few of them were in a critical condition. Pushkar Patel, an eyewitness who helped in the rescue operations, said, "As the slab caved in, the devotees fell into the water and some clung to the hanging debris of the concrete and iron mesh, to save themselves. We heard a loud noise as the slab caved in and rushed to rescue the devotees. We threw ropes and were trying to save them when police and administrative officials arrived. Many of my neighbours and distant relatives were at the temple when the accident took place," he said. People gathered at the temple in large numbers to initiate the rescue operations. Ropes were dropped into the large well, as police arrived in strength to assist in the rescue and maintain law and order. District collector said that a compensat...

People watch at the site where trains that derailed, in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Sunday, June 4, 2023. Indian authorities end rescue work and begin clearing mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing over 300 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country’s deadliest rail crashes in decades. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Jaya Verma Sinha, a senior railway official, said the preliminary investigations revealed that a signal was given to the high-speed Coromandel Express to run on the main track line, but the signal later changed, and the train instead entered an adjacent loop line where it rammed into a freight loaded with iron ore. Fifteen bodies were recovered on Saturday evening and efforts continued overnight with heavy cranes being used to remove an engine that settled on top of a rail car. No bodies were found in the engine and the work was completed on Sunday morning, said Sudhanshu Sarangi, director-general of fire and emergency services in Odisha.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan met with the injured including twin sisters at a private hospital. He then visited the tragedy site to take stock of the rescue operations carried out by the Indian Army in association with the National Disaster Response Fund and State Disaster Emergency Response Force teams. (Photo | PTI) 6 / 8 A magisterial probe has already been instituted to probe the mishap. A criminal case u/s 304 IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) has been registered at the Juni Indore police station, against the chairman and secretary of the private trust which managed the affairs at the Beleshwar Mahadev Jhoolelal Temple. (Photo | AP) 7 / 8 Disclaimer : We respect your thoughts and views! But we need to be judicious while moderating your comments. All the comments will be moderated by the newindianexpress.com editorial. Abstain from posting comments that are obscene, defamatory or inflammatory, and do not indulge in personal attacks. Try to avoid outside hyperlinks inside the comment. Help us delete comments that do not follow these guidelines. The views expressed in comments published on newindianexpress.com are those of the comment writers alone. They do not represent the views or opinions of newindianexpress.com or its staff, nor do they represent the views or opinions of The New Indian Express Group, or any entity of, or affiliated with, The New Indian Express Group. newindianexpress.com reserves the right to take any or all comm...

At least 14 dead after falling into stepwell as floor of Indore temple collapses The 50-year-old stepwell’s roof, also the floor of the temple, caved in due to the weight of too many Ram Navmi devotees. The State government has ordered a probe into the incident. March 30, 2023 04:49 pm | Updated March 31, 2023 08:11 am IST - RAIPUR At least 14 devotees, ten of them women, were killed when the roof of a stepwell at a temple in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore collapsed on Thursday morning. Among the 19 others who were rescued alive following the mishap, some are said to be in critical condition. The victims were part of a crowd that had gathered at the Shri Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal Temple in Indore’s Patel Nagar area for Ram Navmi celebrations. The roof of the stepwell, that also served as the temple floor and was made of concrete slabs supported by iron rods, caved in due to the combined weight of too many devotees. The Madhya Pradesh Government has ordered a probe into the incident and announced an ex-gratia amount of ₹5 lakh to be paid to the next of kin of the deceased, while ₹50,000 will be given to the injured. ‘Guilty will be punished’ “It was an old step well which was covered. 19 people have been rescued alive. This was an extremely tragic incident when 11 bodies were taken out from there [the step-well]. Of those who were rescued, one or two are said to be critical,” Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra said, giving the status of the victims around 5:45 p.m. on T...

Indore: The death toll in Indore temple stepwell collapse has increased to 35 on Friday morning as the search operation to trace persons reported missing after the tragic incident was on. Several people fell into a well as roof of Shri Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal Temple caved in during Ram Navami celebration in the He added, "The administration had to face a lot of trouble in the rescue operation. The accident occurred due to the collapse of the roof over the well. During the hawan, more than 50 people fell into the well. Out of which 35 people have died. Most of the people belongs to the same family. Many children are also involved in the accident." The accident took place when devotees were sitting on the floor during hawan at the temple. Under the floor was a Bawadi (stepwell). The cement seal of the stepwell collapsed and devotees fell into the well. The old well was covered with a concrete slab in the courtyard of Lord Shiva temple in Patel Nagar. The concrete caved in due to load as a huge number of devotees turned up at the temple, Bhanwarkuan police said. The victims fell into the water and clung to the hanging debris of the concrete and iron mesh to save themselves.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan met with the injured including twin sisters at a private hospital. He then visited the tragedy site to take stock of the rescue operations carried out by the Indian Army in association with the National Disaster Response Fund and State Disaster Emergency Response Force teams. (Photo | PTI) 6 / 8 A magisterial probe has already been instituted to probe the mishap. A criminal case u/s 304 IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) has been registered at the Juni Indore police station, against the chairman and secretary of the private trust which managed the affairs at the Beleshwar Mahadev Jhoolelal Temple. (Photo | AP) 7 / 8 Disclaimer : We respect your thoughts and views! But we need to be judicious while moderating your comments. All the comments will be moderated by the newindianexpress.com editorial. Abstain from posting comments that are obscene, defamatory or inflammatory, and do not indulge in personal attacks. Try to avoid outside hyperlinks inside the comment. Help us delete comments that do not follow these guidelines. The views expressed in comments published on newindianexpress.com are those of the comment writers alone. They do not represent the views or opinions of newindianexpress.com or its staff, nor do they represent the views or opinions of The New Indian Express Group, or any entity of, or affiliated with, The New Indian Express Group. newindianexpress.com reserves the right to take any or all comm...