150,000 join Thaipusam procession


  • Nation
  • Monday, 20 Jan 2003

IPOH: More than 150,000 devotees joined those carrying kavadis in a procession through the streets here to celebrate Thaipusam with offerings of coconuts, flowers and milk yesterday. 

Religious music, drum beats and shouts of “vel vel” filled the air as some 400 kavadi bearers, their body pierced with an array of sharp objects, followed the silver chariot of Lord Muruga from the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in Jalan Sungei Pari to Gunung Cheroh Sri Subramaniar temple in Jalan Raja Musa Aziz. 

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