Banni Utsav stick fight: 45 people injured in Andhra's Kurnool
Banni Utsav stick fight: 45 people injured in Andhra's Kurnool
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Andhra Pradesh: The Dasara festivities at Devaragattu village in Holagonda Mandal of Kurnool district turned violent with 41 people suffered injuries.  The injured has been admitted to Adoni and Alur hospitals. The injured were rushed to a hospital in Adoni, the official said.

Kurnool SP Ch Sudheer Kumar Reddy said as many as 41 people were injured, none of them seriously, during the Banni stick fight, a traditional ritual among the villagers during the Dasara festivities.  At a Dussehra procession of Devaragattu Mala Malleshwaraswamy in Holagunda Mandal in Kurnool on Friday, devotes from different verticals of villages face each other with sticks during the festival.

As per details from the source, it is said that at least 50,000 people from Karnataka and Telugu states have reached Devaragattu village to watch the Mala Malleswara Swamy temple festival, as part of which Banni fight is being organized.

Devotees from Neraniki, Neraniki Tanda and Kottapeta villages were on one side and devotees of Arikera, Arikeratanda, Suluvai, Ellarthi, Kurukunda, Bilehall, Virupapuram were on another. Legend has it that Lord Shiva took the form of Bhairava and clobbered two demons, Mani and Mallasura, with sticks. Hundreds lost their lives and blood flowed in streams during the fight. Devaragattu locals enact that scene during Dasara. 

 

 

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