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☆ At least 116 people killed in stampede at Hindu religious event in India
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A relative grieves the death of a loved one outside the morgue of a hospital in Hathras in India's Uttar Pradesh state on July 3, 2024, following a stampede during a Hindu religious gathering. At least 116 people were crushed to death in a stampede at an overcrowded Hindu religious gathering in northern India on July 2, government officials said, the worst such tragedy in more than a decade. At least 116 people, many of them women and children, were killed in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in northern India on Tuesday, authorities said, in one of the country's worst such tragedies in years. The stampede occurred when a crowd of devotees started pushing towards the stage after the event to touch the preacher, who was coming down, said Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state. Another senior state official, Chaitra V., told broadcaster India Today that people may have lost their footing as they sought water in the heat.

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People in Mumbai celebrate the successful lunar landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the south pole of the Moon on August 23. Chandrayaan-3’s journeyAs Chandrayaan-3 approached the moon, its cameras captured photographs, including one taken on August 20 that India’s space agency shared Tuesday. India’s lunar lander consists of three parts: a lander, rover and propulsion module, which provided the spacecraft all the thrust required to traverse the 384,400-kilometer (238,855-mile) void between the moon and Earth. The lander, called Vikram, completed the precision maneuvers required to make a soft touchdown on the lunar surface after it was ejected from the propulsion module. A view of the moon as viewed by the Chandrayaan-3 lander during Lunar Orbit Insertion on August 5, 2023.

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