{"id":33206,"date":"2026-08-17T08:15:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/stampede-at-ashok-dham-temple-in-lakhisarai\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:15:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:45:42","slug":"stampede-at-ashok-dham-temple-in-lakhisarai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/stampede-at-ashok-dham-temple-in-lakhisarai\/","title":{"rendered":"Stampede at Ashok Dham Temple in Lakhisarai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"\">\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/17\/comp-111-2_1786932901.gif\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/17\/comp-111-2_1786932901.gif\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/17\/comp-111-2_1786932901.gif\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">A stampede broke out at the Ashok Dham temple in Lakhisarai, Bihar, on the third Monday of Sawan, leaving seven women dead. More than 12 people are reported injured, and officials fear the death toll could rise further.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">According to reports, around 50,000 devotees had gathered for jalabhishek on the third Monday of the Sawan month. In the rush to move ahead of one another, a barricade broke, causing people to fall over each other. This triggered the stampede.<\/p>\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/17\/comp-115_1786932915.gif\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/17\/comp-115_1786932915.gif\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/17\/comp-115_1786932915.gif\" alt=\"7 women have died in the accident.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><span>7 women have died in the accident.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/17\/comp-113-1_1786932926.gif\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/17\/comp-113-1_1786932926.gif\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/17\/comp-113-1_1786932926.gif\" alt=\"The injured have been brought to Sadar Hospital.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><span>The injured have been brought to Sadar Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/17\/potrait-gif-1_1786933051.gif\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/17\/potrait-gif-1_1786933051.gif\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/17\/potrait-gif-1_1786933051.gif\" alt=\"The injured are being brought to Sadar Hospital by ambulance.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><span>The injured are being brought to Sadar Hospital by ambulance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><strong>The news is being continuously updated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stampede broke out at the Ashok Dham temple in Lakhisarai, Bihar, on the third Monday of Sawan, leaving seven women dead. More than 12 people are reported injured, and officials fear the death toll could rise further. According to reports, around 50,000 devotees had gathered for jalabhishek on the third Monday of the Sawan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28905,28910,28909,28906,28907,23640,28911,28908],"class_list":["post-33206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-ashok-dham-temple","tag-bihar-temple-tragedy","tag-lakhisarai-news","tag-lakhisarai-stampede","tag-sawan-jalabhishek","tag-sawan-monday","tag-stampede-incident","tag-temple-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}