A 32-year-old woman died and a boy was injured in a stampede outside Hyderabad’s Sandhya Theatre when police tried to disperse an unruly crowd that had gathered for a glimpse of actor Allu Arjun during the premiere show of his new film Pushpa 2: The Rule. The woman, who was with her husband and two children, might have “got trapped in the crowd” during the commotion that led to the stampede in the RTC X Roads neighbourhood, an official said.
The woman was given CPR and taken to a hospital at Vidya Nagar, where she succumbed to her injuries. The boy was unconscious before cops at the site revived him through CPR. He was moved to a hospital in Begumpet, where his condition is stable. Roads leading to the theatre were swarming with a few thousand fans till midnight, resulting in traffic snarls. Allu Arjun was inside the theatre watching the film when the stampede occurred.