Several districts in Tamil Nadu yearly maintain the standard Jallikattu occasions as a part of the Pongal competition celebrations. Jallikattu is usually practised in Madurai, Trichy, and Pudukkottai, with smaller-scale competitions additionally happening in Thanjavur, Ariyalur, and different Delta areas.
Three areas in Madurai — Alanganallur, Palamedu, and Avaniyapuram — set up Jallikattu yearly with fervour and enthusiasm. Moreover, winners of Jallikattu obtain a automobile, bike, gold, and silver, nonetheless, on the enviornment, there are fatalities and quite a few accidents. This 12 months, among the many 280 bull tamers who took half in the Avaniyapuram Jallikattu on Sunday, over 60 had been harm, and about 20 had extreme accidents, in accordance to a senior official.
The Jallikattu occasions started in Avaniyapuram in Madurai on January 15 (the second day of the Pongal competition). A 24-year-old bull tamer who had captured 9 bulls on the second-day occasions at Palamedu Jallikattu succumbed to his accidents in the hospital after being attacked by a bull. A complete of 32 accidents associated to the Palamedu Jallikattu had been reported on January 16.
The last day of the Jallikattu occasion, which happened at Alanganallur in Madurai on January 17, reportedly resulted in 53 accidents, together with two police personnel.
In the meantime, a 25-year-old spectator from Pudukkottai was gored by a bull throughout Periya Suriyur Jallikattu in Trichy district on January 16. The severely injured man died on the hospital throughout therapy, whereas 62 others had been injured through the occasion.
Aavarankadu in Manapparai and Navalur Kuttapattu, each shut to Trichy, are different areas for Jallikattu celebrations.
Similar to this, on January eight through the Thachankurichi Jallikattu occasion in the Pudukkottai district, 70 individuals had been harm. On January 17, one spectator died on the Manjuvirattu (one other type of Jallikattu) occasion held at Okay-Rayavaram in Pudukkottai. Sources stated {that a} charging bull slammed 50-year-old Sivaganga resident Ganesan into the bottom through the annual Manjuvirattu competitors.
Another tragedy occurred when two individuals and two bulls travelling in a van had been killed in a head-on collision with a state-run bus whereas they had been getting back from a Jallikattu occasion at Pudukkottai.
Also, 21 had been reportedly harm on January 18 through the Jallikattu occasion in Vadamalapur in Pudukkottai. Meanwhile, 10 individuals had been harm whereas watching Manjuvirattu in Moonjurpattu, shut to Vellore, whereas one individual was killed through the occasion in the Tiruvannamalai district.
On the opposite hand, nearly eleven had been killed together with youngsters through the Uttarayan and Vasi Uttarayan (Second day) competition or the Makar Sankranti competition, after their necks had been slit by kite strings (Manja) through the celebrations in Gujarat. Ahmedabad metropolis has reported the utmost variety of 59 instances of manja accidents.
Additionally, greater than 50 individuals fell from rooftops whereas flying kites. Along with this, greater than 130 individuals have obtained accidents via the glass-coated string (Manja).
During the two-day competition (January 14 & 15), many unlucky incidents have been reported in Gujarat, with 1,281 accidents reported. Two deaths had been reported in Vadodara, two in Rajkot, two in Kamrej (Surat), one in Vijayanagar, one in Visnagar, one in Jamnagar, one in Kalol and one in Bhavnagar. As many as 108 had been injured due to kite string, and 34 accidents throughout kite flying had been reported.
On the day of Uttarayan, 1,657 incidents have taken place. Till the night of Vasi Uttarayan, 817 emergency instances had been reported. Prominent cities like Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot recorded the utmost variety of emergencies and Ahmedabad witnessed a most of 91 instances.
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