Chennai: A massive crowd surge at actor-politician Vijay’s campaign rally Saturday evening at Velusamypuram in Tamil Nadu’s Karur spiralled into a chaos, leaving at least 31 people, including 16 women and six children, dead and more than 50 injured.

Vijay was scheduled to campaign for his Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) in Namakkal and Karur districts Saturday. The actor-politician was supposed to begin his campaign in Namakkal at 8.45 am, but came to the venue around 2.45 pm, and spoke for about 15 minutes before rushing to Karur.

Vijay was supposed to have begun his rally at Karur at 12.45 pm, but reached the venue around 7.30 pm. Eyewitnesses told ThePrint there was a huge rush of people and a chaos set in as they jostled to see him. Show Full Article

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