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Karur stampede: Emoor village drowns in sorrow as families lose 5 loved ones
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Times of India
KARUR: A day after a deadly stampede at TVK chief Vijay's political rally tore apart families, Emoor, a small village about eight kilometres from Karur town, is in deep mourning.
Five of the forty victims belonged to this village, including two from one family.K Sakthivel, who lost his wife and 14-year-old daughter, sat grieving.
"I had already lost my elder daughter years ago; now my younger daughter and wife too are gone," he said, breaking down.
Both of them lost their lives at different spots of the stampede," he said.P Selvaraj lost his wife while his son, who had accompanied her, narrowly escaped.
Emoor has at least two more families grieving the loss of their loved ones in Saturday's tragedy.Elsewhere in Karur, grief has taken equally cruel turns.