Coconut Palm Crashes Into Tent Where Ceremony Is Taking Place
Tragedy struck in Trinidad and Tobago recently, when a coconut palm tree cracked and fell onto a tent inside of which a traditional cultural ceremony was taking place:
| PUNDIT Seeram Maharaj was performing the last of the Kartik rituals, a Hindu water festival, when he heard a loud cracking sound.
A coconut tree had crashed on a tent under which devotees had gathered.
Maharaj was pinned under the tent, with more that 18 worshippers, his son Deepak Maharaj recalled yesterday. "The incident happened about one and a half hours after the prayers started," he said.
Margaret Danook, 65, was hit in the head by the fallen tree and died before reaching the hospital. Six others, including the Hindu priest, suffered injuries. Relatives at Danook's Chase Village, Chaguanas, home said they were unable to speak with the media yesterday. |
Full story here at the
Trinidad Express.
Posted by brian at November 26, 2005 08:11 PM
