In Madhya Pradesh, death toll in a stampede during Navratri festival near a temple in Datia district has risen to 139. More than 100 people were injured in the incident on the bridge over Sindh river near Ratangarh temple. The stampede triggered by rumours that the river bridge the devotees were crossing was about to collapse. A judicial inquiry has been ordered into the incident. 50 pilgrims had been washed away at the same site in 2006.
The festivities turned into a tragedy as the devotees from Datia and neighbouring Uttar Pradesh thronged the Durga temple to offer prayers on the occasion of Navratri.

The irate crowd, protesting over the incident, pelted stones and clashed with police following which police used mild lathicharge to disperse them.