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''At Least 16 Killed'' in Indian Festival Stampede

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At least 16 people were crushed to death and dozens of others injured in a stampede at a religious ceremony
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At least 16 people were crushed to death and dozens of others injured in a stampede at a religious ceremony close to the river Ganges in northern India on Tuesday, officials said. 
"So far 14 women and two men have died, and 46 others are seriously injured," D. Santhel Pandiyan, district magistrate in the nearby town of Haridwar told reporters at the accident site.
"More worshippers turned up than the place could accommodate and so the stampede occurred."
The Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported the stampede broke out when worshippers tried to enter the ashram to take part in ceremonies to celebrate 100 years since the birth of its revered founder Shreeram Sharma. 
The police chief of Uttarakand state said that 50,000 people had gathered for the festival, and that many had tried to congregate at the same time in an area where fires had been lit on ritual grounds. 
Haridwar, 107 miles north of New Delhi where the Ganges emerges from the Himalayan mountains, is one of Hinduism''s most sacred cities and among India''s most important pilgrim destinations. 
Pilgrims visit Haridwar throughout the year to bathe in the Ganges, which they believe will cleanse them of their sins, while the vast Kumbh Mela festival is held around the city every 12 years. 
Stampedes are a regular risk in India where policing and crowd control are often inadequate at temples and on pilgrimage routes, where throngs of fervent devotees congregate on auspicious occasions. 
The last major stampede was in January in the southern state of Kerala when more than 100 people died as panic spread among worshippers crossing mountainous terrain in the dark to visit a shrine.
In March last year, police in Uttar Pradesh blamed lax safety for the deaths of 63 people -- all of them women and children -- in a stampede outside another Hindu temple. 
At least another 10 people died in a stampede at a temple in the state of Bihar in October 2010.
 

Source: BNA

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