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An ambulance carries injured devotees to hospital after a stampede-like situation broke out during the Jagannath Rath Yatra, in Puri, Odisha, Thursday, July 16, 2026. | Photo: PTI
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Officials carry a person on a stretcher amid a temporary crowd surge during the ‘Rath Yatra’ festival procession, in Puri, Odisha, Thursday, July 16, 2026. Many fell ill in the temporary crowd surge and another person died of cardiac arrest, in an unrelated incident, officials said. | Photo: PTI
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Volunteers and emergency responders carry a woman on a stretcher after she fell unconscious during the Jagannath Rath Yatra, in Puri, Odisha, Thursday, July 16, 2026. . | Photo: PTI
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Medical personnel and volunteers shift injured devotees into an ambulance after a stampede-like situation broke out during the Jagannath Rath Yatra, in Puri, Odisha, Thursday, July 16, 2026. . | Photo: PTI
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An ambulance makes its way through the crowd to evacuate devotees who fell ill following a crowd surge during the Jagannath Rath Yatra, in Puri, Odisha, Thursday, July 16, 2026. | Photo: PTI
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Officials carry a person on a stretcher amid a temporary crowd surge during the ‘Rath Yatra’ festival procession, in Puri, Odisha, Thursday, July 16, 2026. | Photo: PTI
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An ambulance stuck amid a temporary crowd surge during the ‘Rath Yatra’ festival procession, in Puri, Odisha, Thursday, July 16, 2026. . | Photo: PTI
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An ambulance carries injured devotees to hospital after a stampede-like situation broke out during the Jagannath Rath Yatra, in Puri, Odisha, Thursday, July 16, 2026. | Photo: PTI
