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Unite News of India said about 1.5 million pilgrims gathered in the town. Press Trust put the figure at 5 million.
NEW DELHI, India — The balcony of an old hostel in a southern town collapsed yesterday on top of a gathering of pilgrims. More than 80 people were killed by falling debris and in a stampede of terrified worshipers, news reports said.
Balcony falls at festival
More than 80 pilgrims killed at Indian hostel
kumbakonam, in Tamil Nadu state, that attracts millions of the nation's pilgrims, news reports said.
The Associated Press
Kumbakonam is 1,210 miles southeast of New Delhi and 160 miles south of Madras, the capital of Tamil Nadu.
Neither report could be confirmed immediately but religious congregations often attract millions of people in India, a nation of 844 million people, mostly Hindus.
The tragedy occurred during a Hindu festival held every 2 years in
At least 30 women and three children died in the collapse, and at least another 50 people died in the stampede, news reports said.
Hundreds of people crowded into the balcony of an ancient hostel overlooking a large artificial pool in which people were taking ritual baths. Thousands more were standing at the edge of the tank awaiting their turns, news reports said.
About 50 people were seriously wounded, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
Specialist testifies that infertility physician accused of fraud deliberately misled clients
It was the first accident in memory at the Mahamaham festival. The first recorded celebration in Kumbakonam was held in 1518 A.D. during the Nayaka dynasty's rule.
The Associated Press
Witness says doctor schemed
ALEXANDRIA, Va. —An infertility doctor who is being tried on fraud charges knowingly led a "staggering" number of patients through false pregnancies and miscarriages, a doctor who examined his records testified yesterday.
Slabs of the concrete balcony fell on pilgrims below, triggering a stumpede, PressTrust said.
Hindus believe a dip in the sacred 5.4-acre pool at a time determined by astrologers absolves one's sins.
"He had a scheme outlined to do all of this," she said.
Judging from Jacobson's medical records, Mary Damewood, an infertility specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital said Cecil Jacobson knew exactly what he was doing.
Sacrifice meets its course in fluke and perjury. He is accused of using hormone injections to trick some patients into believing they were pregnant when they were not. He is also accused of fathering up to 75 children by using his own sperm in artificial insemination and lying to patients about the source.
"There was only a certain amount (of sperm) there and a number of patients coming in," she said.
Another witness, Launi Jean Robertson, who worked as a receptionist for Jacobson from 1982 to 1985, said that she was convinced that Jacobson had used his own semen and that sometimes one sample would be distributed among more than one patient.
A former lab assistant, Gudrun Slaughter, who worked for Jacobson for eight years, said that she also was
convinced that Jacobson donated his own sperm and that he sometimes would divide it among more than one patient.
Damewood said she examined the records of about 1,000 of Jacobson's patients and found that hundreds of patients had been led through a series of supposed pregnancies and miscarriages.
"The number of patients that have failed pregnancies and these basically unheard of re-absorptions was just staggering," she said.
Several women have testified that Jacobson convinced them that their bodies had re-absorbed dead fetuses.
"The women in the courtroom were just the tip of the iceberg," Damewood said.
Another witness, Vicki Eckhardt, said that she experienced seven supposed pregnancies and seven carriages under Jacobson's care during a three-year period.
Eckhardt also testified that Jacobson guaranteed her she would have a baby. The prosecution said Jacobson told the Federal Trade Commission in a sworn affidavit that he never guaranteed to any patient that she would become pregnant.
"You can't mistake what a fetus looks like," she said. "It must have been clear that these women were not pregnant."
Other former patients who testified yesterday included:
"He reassured me that the child was proceeding to grow normally," she said.
Damewood said she and a radiology specialist examined a number of sonograms from which Jacobson reportedly pointed out fetuses to the patients. They found no signs of fetuses on the pictures.
She said that months later he told her the baby was dead and had been reabsorbed into her body. She later sued Jacobson and received a $130,000 settlement payment.
■ Judith Dowd, who said that she was 46 and suffered from blocked fallopian tubes when Jacobson gave her hormone injections in 1987 and then told her she was pregnant.
Susan Dippel, who testified that two days after another doctor told her she was not pregnant Jacobson conducted a songram and "made a point of saying there's no mistaking that fetal heartbeat."
■ Jean Blair, who said that Jacobson told her six times in 13 months that she was pregnant but said later that each fetus had miscarried. She said she suggested another fertility hormone but "he laughed it off and told me I had been reading those women's magazines again."
interrogated.
She said that another doctor later prescribed the other hormone and she was pregnant within a month.
Jacobson's defense lawyer, James Tate, has repeatedly suggested that the patients may in fact have been pregnant when Jacobson told them they were. Jacobson agreed to stop practicing medicine in 1988. He now conducts privately funded medical research in Provo, Utah.
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