A 57-year-old devotee from Cuttack died during a crowd surge while pulling one of the chariots during the Bahuda Yatra in Odisha’s temple town of Puri on Friday, police said. A Cuttack devotee died of suspected suffocation while pulling Goddess Subhadra’s chariot during Puri’s Bahuda Yatra, police said. (PTI) The deceased, identified as Abhiram Das, reportedly complained of breathlessness while pulling the Darpadalan chariot of Goddess Subhadra and collapsed amid the massive crowd gathered on the Grand Road (Bada Danda), police officers said. Volunteers, fellow devotees and Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel took Das to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival. Officers said preliminary findings indicated that Das died of suffocation. His body was sent for postmortem, and his family was informed. Several other devotees also fell ill during the procession and were admitted to a hospital, officers said. Also Read: Stampede-like situation during Jagannath Rath Yatra in Puri leaves 2 dead, nearly 100 hospitalised The death comes just over a week after three devotees lost their lives during the main Rath …