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.
Persons:
Yogi Adityanath, Ashish Kumar
Organizations:
India
Locations:
Hathras, India's Uttar Pradesh, India, Utter Pradesh, New Delhi, sweltering, Uttar Pradesh