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Stampede at religious event in India kills more than 100 people, almost all of them women
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Hundreds of thousands of people had gathered at the Tuesday event, which was held amid sweltering heat in a makeshift tent in the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh state, about 125 miles southeast of the Indian capital, New Delhi.
The stampede began at the end of the event when a crowd of devotees rushed to touch the Hindu preacher hosting it as he left the stage, the state’s chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, said late Tuesday in a video posted on X.
Almost all of the 116 dead were women, except for seven children and one man, the state’s chief secretary, Manoj Kumar Singh, told reporters late Tuesday.
The disproportionate number of women and children killed is consistent with what often happens in a stampede, said Milad Haghani, a senior lecturer of urban mobility, public safety and disaster risk at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
Haghani said in some ways the stampede was worse than last month’s Hajj in Saudi Arabia, during which more than 1,300 people died of heat-related reasons out of millions of pilgrims traveling to the kingdom’s Islamic holy sites.
Deadly stampedes are fairly common in India, the world’s most populous nation, where religious gatherings can attract hundreds of thousands of people.
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