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Official: 6 Hindus die in stampede in India

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An official says six Hindus have died in a stampede during a religious ceremony on the banks of the Ganges River in northern India.

 

Amit Chandola, a government spokesman, says another 50 people were injured Tuesday in Haridwar, a temple-filled town in Uttar Pradesh state at the foothills of the Himalayas where the Ganges enters the sprawling plains of northern India. (AP)

 

 

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