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** <http://www.jharkhand.org.in/contact.htm> <http://www.jharkhand.org.in/forum> Debts compel family to attempt suicide BERHAMPUR, July 4: Five members of a family, driven by financial distress, attempted suicide at Polsara here today. The parents died while their three children are battling for life at the hospital here. Ashok Prusty who owned a eatery ran into debt, mostly to private money lenders and took the drastic step. He is said to have returned from the shop last night and served a drink laced with some poisonous substance to each member of the family. It was in the early hours of today that neighbours detected the strange silence in the house. Ashok had died while the rest including his wife Damayanti Prusty, two daughters Srima and Reshma and son Amrit were rushed to the hospital. Damayanti died on way. Sister of Ashok told reporters that he had once requested her for money to get his children readmitted to school but never spoke of the extent of his financial problems. Interestingly there have been other instances of such attempted mass suicide in the district earlier. Police sources said in February there were two such attempts be separate families at Keluapalli and Hinjili areas and in May last year a similar case was registered at Brahmanchai village. n sns http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=9&theme=&usrsess=1&id=211741 ** India temple stampede kills six Friday, 4 July 2008: [image: Victim of the Orissa stampede is rushed to hospital] The injured were rushed to hospital *At least six devotees were killed and 12 injured in a stampede during a pilgrimage in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, officials say.* The victims - including three women - had come to witness an festival for Lord Jagannath, who is widely revered as a Hindu deity. They died on Friday afternoon when some devotees suddenly surged forward. The incident happened in the coastal pilgrimage city of Puri, famous for its annual Festival of Chariots. The injured were immediately taken to hospital. "We are trying to identify the victims," said chief temple administrator SN Panigrahi. The BBC's Sanjaya Jena in the state capital, Bhubaneswar, says that at least one million people from different parts of the state and abroad have congregated in Puri to take part in a nine-day cultural fiesta. Our correspondent says that despite the mishap, all the rituals of the Car festival were smoothly completed with only a short delay. The incident happened outside the Sri Jagannath temple when statues of the deities Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra were being taken out of the temple for a traditional procession. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7490218.stm [image: Join Jharkhand Network]<http://www.jharkhand.org.in/jharkhand_flier.pdf> Click on pic to download this Jharkhand Flier . * News TV <http://www.indian-tv.blogspot.com/> Blog <http://www.jharkhand.org.in/blog> Photo <http://www.jharkhand.org.in/photo> Music <http://www.jharkhandi.org/music.htm> Video <http://www.jharkhandi.org/video.htm> Live Chat <http://www.jharkhand.org.in/live> Directory <http://www.jharkhand.org.in/directory> Testimonials <http://www.jharkhand.org.in/directory> Forum <http://yahoogroups.com/group/jharkhand> Contact <http://www.jharkhand.org.in/contact.htm> . * -- Jharkhand News [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jharkhand Online Network www.jharkhand.org.in/news --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Explore http://Jharkhand.org.in 4 Live Chat, i-Messaging, Music Video, News and much more..... Posting Norms - http://www.jharkhand.org.in/posting_norms.htm -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
