Visakhapatnam Temple Tragedy: 7 Dead, 4 Injured In Platform Collapse During Chandanotsavam Festival

A spiritual competition took a sad activate Tuesday as a degree gave means on the Chandanotsavam competition on the well-known Sri Varahalakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple in Visakhapatnam district, killing seven devotees and leaving 4 injured. The mishap happened when a short lived degree put in to degree the competition of 20 toes lengthy, gave means unexpectedly and dropped a couple of folks onto the bottom beneath.

#WATCH | Andhra Pradesh | Visuals from the Sri Varahalakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple in Visakhapatnam, the place seven folks died after a 20-foot-long stretch collapsed all the way through the Chandanotsavam competition pic.twitter.com/q7CWB4vfJr

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Rescue Operations Underway

State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) groups have been briefly despatched to the positioning. Search and rescue efforts proceed as officers kind during the rubble to verify nobody is trapped.

Government Response

Andhra Pradesh Home Minister Vangalapudi Anitha toured the temple web site with most sensible officers from the state’s Disaster Management Department to for my part oversee rescue and reduction operations.

The government are set to research why the construction collapsed, with inquiries coming up as to protection procedures in position at primary public occasions all the way through non secular ceremonies.