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31 killed in stampede at India train station

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS

Posted: February 11, 2013 at 5:06 a.m.

KEVIN FRAYER
Credit: AP
An injured Indian woman who survived a stampede on a railway platform is carried away at the main railway station in Allahabad, India, on Sunday.

A stampede at a train station killed 31 people Sunday in the northern Indian town where millions of devout Hindus gathered for a religious festival, police said.

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A woman weeps as she watches from a staircase as rescue workers tend to the bodies of those killed in a stampede on a railway... (By: KEVIN FRAYER) (Credit: AP)

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