US EditionSri Lanka Buddhists overwhelm city in bid to see sacred tooth
- Buddhist devotees flocked to Kandy, Sri Lanka on Thursday to see a sacred tooth relic.
- This special showing, last held in 2009, drew overwhelming crowds far surpassing the expected two million visitors.
- Queues stretched 10 kilometers, hundreds became sick, and nearly 300 people required hospital admission.
- Officials estimated 450,000 people queued Thursday morning, more than double the 200,000 daily expectation.
- Authorities, overwhelmed by the numbers, suspended additional trains and turned away buses.
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10 km long queues in Sri Lanka while Buddhists stand in line to see holy tooths
Colombo: Buddhists who flowed to see a holy tooth in Sri Lanka were encouraged by the authorities to stay away on Thursday after four people died and hundreds got sick while they were in long rows. Regional police chief Lalith Pathinayake said that queues in the city Kandy were already 10 kilometers (six miles) while […]
Sri Lanka calls halt to crowds surging to the Buddha’s tooth relic exposition
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Kandy is overwhelmed with hundreds of thousands of devotees arriving to see an exposition of Buddha’s tooth relic prompting public health warnings, officials said urging people to stay away from the central hill town. The tooth relic revered by Buddhist over centuries is open to public view after 16 years. “There are massive crowds, sometimes for several days,” Sarath Abayakoon, Governor of Central Province, told repor…
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