KARUR: A day after a deadly stampede at TVK chief Vijay's political rally tore apart families, Emoor, a small village about eight kilometres from Karur town, is in deep mourning. Five of the forty victims belonged to this village, including two from one family. K Sakthivel, who lost his wife and 14-year-old daughter, sat grieving. "I had already lost my elder daughter years ago; now my younger daughter and wife too are gone," he said, breaking down. He said both were ardent Vijay fans, determined to see ‘Vijay anna' despite his pleas to return home fearing the swelling crowd. "They said they wanted to see him at any cost. When I saw the initial news that ten people had died, I tried calling them frantically, but they were unreachable. Both of them lost their lives at different spots of

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