Chaos in Lucknow mango festival - visitors loot mangoes on last day

It was a two day festival of mangoes in Lucknow and, on the last day, nearly 250 exhibits of various species of the delicious fruits were looted by public. The district magistrate has claimed that it was a mango eating competition that gave rise to the situation but, the 'plundering' was evident to those who were present on the spot.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 27 June 2016.

The incident happened at around 5 pm, when the crowd was at its peak. The mango growers had started packing up but the the visitors in the exhibition area refused to leave. When security persons came on the scene, there was a stampede like situation and, taking advantage of that, some visitors barged into the exhibition area and walked away with the mangoes on display.
The free-for-all went on for about 20 minutes and had to be controlled by the police.
Farmers and shopkeepers from Agra and Barabanki and even Lucknow lamented that they could not sell anything yesterday because of late inauguration and when they expected to sell them they were looted. Obviously, it was an example of poor management because there were more than 20,000 persons who visited Janeshwar Mishra park, the venue of the exhibition.


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