Families receive bodies for last rites, 2-yr-old boy among the victims

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.