Visakhapatnam, May 1 -- Seven people were killed when a rain-soaked wall collapsed at the Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple in Simhachalam here in the early hours of Wednesday.
The Government said seven people died after the wall collapsed on the '300 ticket queue line near the shopping complex on the ghat road from Simhagiri bus stand at around 3 am.
President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, among others, expressed grief over the incident. Both the Centre and the State Government announced ex-gratia to the families of those killed in the incident.
State Home Minister V Anitha, who was present at the site, said preliminary reports indicated that the wall collapse at the temple ...