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Over 121 killed and dozens injured in stampede in religious event in northern India

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More than 121 people, including women and children, were killed after a stampede broke out at a 'satsang' (prayer meeting) organised by a self-styled godman, Bhole Baba aka Narayan Saakar Hari, in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras on Tuesday afternoon.

Over 200 Thousand people attended the religious event. Thousands of people pressed into a small area, and then people began falling like nine pins, getting crushed under the weight of the crowd. Post-mortem reports of some of the victims of the Hathras tragedy, in which 121 people were killed, have revealed that, just like in other stampedes, the deaths were largely caused by chest injuries and suffocation.

The bodies were handed over to the victims' family after post-mortem examination. The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday announced a judicial probe into the Hathras tragedy.

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