Two-year-old Dhuru Vishnu, tragically the youngest fatality in the stampede that has shaken both Tamil Nadu and the nation, was attending the Karur rally on Saturday with his relatives.

The toddler's head was wrapped in the colours of actor-politician Vijay’s TVK party. Also Read | TVK Karur stampede: Fear of angry mob? 'Security up at Vijay's Chennai home'

"So we took him along. As soon as Vijay came, they cut off the electricity supply. People could not hear him, so everyone tried to move closer to the bus. We cannot blame Vijay for the incident. It was our mistake. We should not have taken a child there," she said.

Among the ten children killed in the tragedy are Hemalatha (8), Sailetsana (8), Sai Jeeva (4), Dhuru Vishnu (2), Sanuj (13), Dharanika (14), Pazhaniammal (11), Koki

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