At least 105 people have died in a stampede following a religious gathering in northern India, officials say
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — At least 105 people have died in a stampede following a religious gathering in northern India, officials say.
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — At least 105 people have died in a stampede following a religious gathering in northern India, officials say.
The incident took place at a Hindu religious event in Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh state.
Nearly a quarter of a million people were evacuated in eastern China as rainstorms lashed swathes of the country and caused the Yangtze and other rivers to swell, state media reported Wednesday.Mountain floods in central Hunan claimed five lives last month, according to state media reports, while a landslide in the same province killed eight people.
Survivors of India's deadliest stampede in more than a decade recalled on Wednesday the horror of being crushed at a vastly overcrowded Hindu religious gathering where 121 people were killed.The state disaster management centre said 121 people had been killed.
STORY: This shop owner in southern China's Hunan Province is busy cleaning up debris on Wednesday after heavy rainfall and flooding devastated her stationary store.She says she didn't receive any notice to move her goods and asks: "How can a family survive in this situation?"Heavy rainfall pounded parts of Hunan earlier this week, causing the water level of a local river to reach its highest level in 70 years.Local authorities have activated the maximum emergency response level.This restaurant owner said she had to flee before it became impossible to get herself out.Now, with her business flooded - she says she is heartbroken and doesn't know how she will provide for her children.Last week, President Xi Jinping urged authorities to put in all-out efforts to protect lives as floods and natural disasters increased.China has provided more than $316.4 million in funds to help with rescue efforts and emergency supplies as deadly floods and landslides caused by almost two weeks of torrential rain ravage several parts of the country.In Changsha, the capital of Hunan, the Xiang and Laodao rivers are expected to hit peak dangerous levels Thursday morning, state media reported.
A crowd crush at a religious gathering in northern India killed more than a hundred people Tuesday, mostly women, in one of the deadliest such incidents the country has seen in recent years.
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Crush occurred when hundreds of people attempted to touch religious leader’s feet and collect soil from where he walked
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