The structure apparently caved in because it could not handle the weight of the large crowd, said the state’s top elected official.
NEW DELHI — Thirty-five bodies have been found inside a well at a Hindu temple in central India after dozens of people fell into the muddy water when the well’s cover collapsed, officials said Friday.showed chaos afterward, with people rushing toward the exits. An excavator pulled down a wall of the decades-old temple to help people flee.
Dozens of people fell into the water when the structure over the well collapsed and were covered by falling debris, police Commissioner Makrand Deoskar said. “We have so far recovered 35 bodies and the rescue operation is continuing,” said Ilayaraja T., a district administrator. The effort was continuing Friday.
People wail as they watch rescuers work at the site of a structure built over an old temple well that collapsed Thursday. Temple authorities had stopped using the well years ago and covered the mouth with iron grills and tiles.
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