Stampede, Fire Kill Hundreds Near Indian Temple
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As many as 300 Hindu pilgrims, including  women and children, were crushed or burned to death in a  stampede and subsequent fire near a temple in western India on  Tuesday, the district's top official said.  Officials said a short-circuit may have sparked a fire in  roadside stalls when nearly 300,000 people were on an annual  pilgrimage to the popular Mandher Devi temple, on a hilltop  near Wai, about 160 miles southeast of Bombay.
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Five devotees were killed as tens of thousands of Hindus Saturday took a dip in the Krishna river in Andhra Pradesh to mark a major festival.
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MULTAN, Pakistan  - A fire at a wedding party triggered a stampede and collapse of a wall in central Pakistan, killing more than 20 people, including the bride, police said on Sunday.
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MADRAS, India  - Wailing relatives gathered around  dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India Sunday after a  tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed  about 2,000 people.
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At least 20 people have been killed and several dozen injured in a collision between two passenger trains in the northern Indian state of Punjab.
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Indian police battled crowds of Muslim demonstrators today after a young protester was killed trying to stop the arrest of a religious leader in the southern city of Hyderabad.
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BOMBAY -- As many as 300 Hindu pilgrims, including women and children, were crushed or burned to death in a stampede and subsequent fire near a temple in western India yesterday, the district's top official said.
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AMRITSAR: Thousands of Sikhs from across the world have begun arriving in this northern Indian city to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the installation of Sikhismâs scripture in the Golden Temple, witnesses said on Sunday.
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Sixty-seven people have burned to death after blasts ignited a fireball on a train from India to Pakistan in an attack condemned as terrorism aimed at derailing the South Asian peace process.
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Ten people are crushed to death and dozens injured in a stampede after a concert in Java, Indonesia.
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Four women and a 12-year-old girl died and at least 10 people were injured in a stampede at the Indian capital's main railway station Saturday as thousands tried to board a train, officials said.
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Lightning storms and monsoon rains lashing parts of India have killed at least 36 people and wrought havoc in the country&#039;s commercial capital Mumbai, officials and witnesses said.
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SIALKOT, Pakistan -- Thousands of minority Shi'ite Muslims rampaged through this eastern Pakistan city for the second straight day yesterday, burning a police station and the mayor's office after a mass funeral for 31 people killed by a suicide bombing at a Shi'ite mosque.
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Fifty-nine people died and more than 200  were injured on Monday when a faulty electrical heater started  a blaze in a Tehran mosque crowded with worshippers for a major  Shi'ite Muslim festival, Iranian state media reported.
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At least 31 people, mostly worshippers   at weekly Islamic prayers, were killed and up to 75 injured in   a series of explosions in a Muslim-majority town in western   India on Friday, police said.
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Up to 300 Hindu pilgrims are feared dead after a stampede at a Hindu festival in India, officials say.
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NEW DELHI - At least 25 people are feared killed and more than 50 hurt after two Indian Railway trains collided head-on in the Hoshiarpur District of Punjab State about 350 kilometers north of New Delhi on Tuesday.