63 die, dozens injured in Indian temple stampede

Friday, March 5, 2010

KUNDA, India -- A stampede among thousands of poor villagers scrambling for free food and clothes at a commemorative event killed 63 people Thursday at a Hindu temple in northern India and injured dozens of others.

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