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29 pilgrims dead in Andhra stampede


In a heart-wrenching tragedy, 29 pilgrims, 23 out of them women, died in a stampede on Tuesday on the banks of the Godavari river in Andhra Pradesh on the first day of a major religious festival Godavari Pushkaram.
Around 50 people were admitted in hospital and the condition of 15 of them is said to be critical.
Eyewitnesses said the stampede occurred around half-an-hour after chief minister Chandrababu Naidu left the Pushkara Ghat that was blocked for public and where crowds kept building up while Naidu performed prayers.There was a sudden surge of crowd when the barricades were removed.

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