Haridwar, July 27 -- The Mansa Devi Mandir Trust President, Mahant Ravindra Puri, on Sunday said that this morning's stampede incident at the temple located in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand was triggered as a result of someone slipping and falling inside the temple and not as rumoured by a snapped electricity cable.

"This is not an incident of electrocution, but there are no indications of such happening... We will assist the victim families... It happened as a huge crowd gathered here; the police were informed, barricades were put up, but still the crowd came up and someone slipped, due to which the entire incident took place... " Puri told ANI.

President of Mansa Devi Mandir Trust, Mahant Ravindra Puri, said, "There are three w...