Death toll from India stampede rises to 116

Publishing date: 12 July 2024

Published in: Al Jazeera

More than 100 people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in northern India, authorities say.

A large crowd gathered on Tuesday in a village in Uttar Pradesh state’s Hathras district, about 200km (125 miles) southeast of the national capital, New Delhi, for a sermon by a preacher, and a fierce dust storm sparked panic as people were leaving.

Many were crushed or trampled and fell on top of each other. Some collapsed into a roadside drain in the chaos.