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Families receive bodies for last rites, 2-yr-old boy among the victims
The New Indian Express
|September 29, 2025
THE bodies of the 40 who perished in the stampede were either cremated or buried on Sunday after postmortem examination at the Karur Government Medical College Hospital.
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While the death toll in the stampede stood at 39 till Sunday morning, it increased to 40 after a 17-year-old Kavin died without responding to treatment at the government medical college hospital a few hours into the day. Among the 40 dead, 17 were women and 10 were children.
This story is from the September 29, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express.
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