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Kundam festival held

Staff Reporter

Ritual started at 4 a.m.

ERODE: More than one lakh men and women with their children participated in the annual kundam (fire-walking) festival at Bannari Amman Temple on Tuesday.

The chief temple priest first walked over the simmering fire. Women walked over the kundam with their children.

The ritual, which started at 4 a.m. ended by 2 p.m.

The police had made elaborate arrangements for the festival.

The volunteers rescued two women and two men, who fell into the fire.

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