The wedding turned into a stampede-like situation as people looted snack boxes and fought over chip packets.
A video has been doing the rounds on the internet showing a stampede-like situation during a mass wedding in Uttar Pradesh’s Hamirpur. The incident saw large numbers of guests looting snack boxes and fighting over chip packets.
Guests loot snack boxes at a UP mass wedding.
The incident in Hamirpur, UP, saw guests looting snack boxes and fighting over chip packets. A report also suggested how a child sustained burn injuries after hot tea fell on his hands during the stampede-like situation at the government-sponsored mass wedding. The mass wedding was held on November 25 for 383 couples at a sports ground in the state.
A mass wedding in UP turned into a stampede-like situation.
According to Bhaskar English, the wedding guests ran to grab snacks, with people hurling cartons at each other, looting multiple chip packets, and even a groom fleeing with packets. The video of the incident, which has now gone viral on the internet, shows men, women, and kids turning over chip boxes and fleeing with multiple packets. The crowd could be seen chuckling and laughing in the video amid the chaos.
Watch the viral video here:
Netizens react to the viral video.
One user reacted, “Happiness of the Bride and Groom is of Least Priority.” Another expressed, “Can y’all imagine, we the people have the right to vote… incredible India.” A third person wrote, “This is India and something like this happens everything. If Indians had brains, we would have conquered the world and not be in this state.” One more commented, “Yehhaalhamaredeshka (This is the state of our country).”

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