Crowds had gathered to celebrate the Hindu deity Shiva in the city of Hathras.
The stampede happened in a village in Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh, about 200km south-east of the national capital New Delhi.Women receive medical treatment at a hospital following a stampede in Hathras, in India's Uttar Pradesh state, on July 3, 2024.Relatives transport the body of a stampede victim out of a hospital in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, India, on July 2, 2024.
While the cause was not immediately clear, Hathras district administrator Ashish Kumar suggested it may have been “due to overcrowding at the time when people were trying to leave the venue”. Police said they had launched an investigation and promised action against anyone found to be responsible, adding that the gathering may have been larger than had been permitted.
It also showed some women hanging on to the bamboo poles holding up the canopy to get a better view above the heads of the large crowd.“There must have been about 50,000 people... at the gate on the highway, some people were going left and some people were going right, the stampede was caused in that confusion,” Mr Suresh Chandra, a witness who was at the gathering, told local media.
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