ALLAHABAD - A stampede at a railway station in northern India killed at least 36 Hindu pilgrims on Sunday, the busiest day of the world’s largest religious festival at which some 30 million had gathered to wash away their sins in the sacred Ganges river.
Twenty-seven of the dead were women, mostly elderly and poor. An eight-year-old girl was also crushed to death. A Reuters witness saw a woman weeping at the train station, surrounded by six bodies dressed in brightly coloured saris.
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/02/10/at-least-18-dead-in-stampede-at-hindu-festival
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