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NEW DELHI — At least 116 people, many of them women and children, were killed in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in north India on Tuesday, authorities said, in one of the country's worst such tragedies in years.The stampede happened in a village in Hathras district, about 200 km southeast of the national capital New Delhi, where authorities said thousands had gathered in sweltering late afternoon temperatures.
A video on social media showed a large crowd packed into a tented area, standing and listening to devotional tunes as they waved their hands in the direction of the religious leader who sat on a stage.It also showed some women hanging on to the bamboo poles holding up the canopy to get a better view above the heads of the large crowd.Reuters could not immediately verify the social media images."There must have been about 50,000 people...
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