Stampede-like situation during Jagannath Rath Yatra in Puri leaves 2 dead, nearly 100 hospitalised

The brief

A massive crowd surge during the annual Rath Yatra in Odisha’s Puri town on Thursday left two devotees dead and more than 100 others injured after authorities were overwhelmed by the influx of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. The crowd crush occurr... [3492 chars]