A recent tragedy of human stampede at a temple in Sabarimala, Kerala, India (January 14, 2011), claimed more than a hundred lives. For a religious country like India, human stampedes are not new; the last stampede being the third in the history of the Hill Shrine of Sabarimala. A surprising fact is that human stampedes receive equally little attention from both the scientific community and the disaster planners in developing countries. In India, as a matter of fact, such events are happening, time and again, resulting in a casualty of more than a thousand deaths in last one decade (five such major incidents in 2008 alone).
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