Chris has officially begun his vacation in the south, so it's time for me to pick up on the more worldly news. What a horrible story. From AP:
Family members moved through row after row of bodies overnight in a grim search for their loved ones among the 145 people killed in a deadly stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple.
In many cases, families lost several relatives who were killed together as they went to the Naina Devi Temple in the foothills of the Himalayas Sunday to celebrate Shravan Navratras, a nine-day festival that honors the Hindu goddess Shakrti, or divine mother.
Mukesh Chabba went to the temple with 11 family members to celebrate the recent birth of his son. Only five of them survived.
The 31-year-old farmer lost both of his parents, his wife, his 2-year-old daughter, his brother and sister-in-law and their 17 year old daughter. He saved his infant son by passing him to a young man who was on a ledge above the main path, he said.
"There was a lot of shouting and pushing. People fell down and could not get up. They just suffocated," he said.
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