Five priests drown while performing temple ritual

Compiled by MAHADHIR MONIHULDIN, ALLISON LAI and R. ARAVINTHAN

FIVE priests drowned in a lake in Tamil Nadu while conducting prayers for a temple festival, reported Malaysia Nanban.

The five, who were volunteers, were among the more than two dozen priests conducting the deity-bathing ceremony at a temple near Chennai.

One of the priests apparently lost his footing and began struggling and the others who tried to help were dragged down one by one into the water.

> The Sentul Sri Thandayuthapani Temple’s silver chariot has completed a hundred years of service with the recent Pangguni Uthiram procession, the daily also reported.

The procession started at Lebuh Ampang at 8am and reached the temple 12 hours later after going through major roads in Kuala Lumpur.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.