Goa, July 28 -- A tragic stampede at the Awsaneshwar Mahadev temple in Barabanki claimed the lives of two devotees and left 29 others injured in the early hours of Monday. The incident occurred during a midnight 'Jalabhishek' ritual, a traditional water offering to Lord Shiva, observed during the holy month of Sawan.

The stampede broke out around 2 am when panic ensued following an electric shock within the temple premises. According to officials, the chaos was triggered after a high-tension wire snapped and fell onto a shed in the temple compound.

District Magistrate Durgesh Shukla stated that the incident was caused by monkeys jumping onto the overhead wire, which then broke and made contact with the structure below, resulting in an e...