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Thirty-six people have been killed in a stampede in northern India, where millions of pilgrims flocked for a major Hindu festival. The victims died as the crowd rushed to a train arriving at a different platform than expected.

*Twenty-three of the victims of the stampede in the city of Allahabad were women, said Dr. P. Padmakar, medical superintendent of the main state-run hospital in the area. Dozens others were injured in the incident.
Tens of thousands of people were waiting to board a train in Allahabad’s main rail station on Sunday, when officials announced last-minute change of platform, according to eyewitness reports.
People rushed on to a footbridge when, according to some accounts, police tried to control the crowd using batons. This reportedly triggered the fatal stampede.

"People started tumbling over one another and within no time I saw people, particularly women and children, being trampled over by others,"
passenger Shushanto Kumar Sen told AP.
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