Death toll from India stampede rises to 116
More than 100 people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in northern India, authorities say.
A large crowd gathered on Tuesday in a village in Uttar Pradesh state’s Hathras district, about 200km (125 miles) southeast of the national capital, New Delhi, for a sermon by a preacher, and a fierce dust storm sparked panic as people were leaving.
Many were crushed or trampled and fell on top of each other. Some collapsed into a roadside drain in the chaos.
At least 116 people died, most of them women and children, said Prashant Kumar, the director general of police in Uttar Pradesh.
Al Jazeera’s Imogen Kimber reports.
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