Tirupati stampede: Six devotees ready for darshan tokens die, 29 injured

There have been chaos when devotees had been allowed on the counters. They pushed one another to surge ahead, ensuing within the stampede.

In line with officers, there was stampede at Srinivasam, Bairagipatteda and Satyanarayanapuram.

Police and TTD officers rushed to the spot and launched rescue and reduction operations. The TTD was planning to situation 1.20 lakh tokens on Thursday morning for Vaikunta Dwara Darshan on 10, 11 and 12 January.

Tirupati district collector Venkateshwar and TTD govt officer Shyamala Rao rushed to Ruia Hospital the place the victims had been admitted. Chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and deputy chief minister Pawan Kalyan have additionally expressed shock over the dying of 4 devotees within the stampede.

The chief minister mentioned in an announcement that he was pained over the incident. He spoke to officers over telephone and directed them to make sure finest remedy to these injured.

The chief minister requested senior officers to go to the scene and undertake reduction operations.

He was in contact with the district officers and TTD authorities to observe the state of affairs.

Former chief minister and YSR Congress Occasion president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has additionally expressed shock over the dying of 4 devotees within the stampede.