Local media has Reported the incident took place near the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, where an Indian Premier League match was taking place.Several people were reported killed in a stampede outside a cricket stadium in Bengaluru, the capital of India’s southern Karnataka state, Indian media reported Wednesday.
The incident took place as thousands of fans gathered outside to celebrate a cricket match of the Indian Premier League.
Broadcaster NDTV reported that at least three people had been killed while The Indian Express newspaper reported at least two deaths and multiple injuries.CatastropheIndia
India: Several feared dead after cricket stadium stampede
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Local media has reported the incident took place near the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, where an Indian Premier League match was taking place.
Several people were reported killed in a stampede outside a cricket stadium in Bengaluru, the capital of India’s southern Karnataka state, Indian media reported Wednesday.
The incident took place as thousands of fans gathered outside to celebrate a cricket match of the Indian Premier League.
Broadcaster NDTV reported that at least three people had been killed while The Indian Express newspaper reported at least two deaths and multiple injuries.
Local official says crowd ‘uncontrollable’
Deputy chief minister of Karnataka state, D.K. Shivakumar that he was not able to give immediate confirmation of deaths.
“This is not a controllable crowd,” AFP news agency quoted him as telling reporters. “The police were finding it very difficult.”
“I apologise to the people of Karnataka and Bengaluru,” he said. “We wanted to take a procession, but the crowd was very uncontrollable… the crowd was so much.”
Local TV channels broadcast footage of police moving injured people to nearby ambulances.
