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At least 91 pilgrims, many of them women and children, have been killed and dozens more injured in a stampede at a temple in central India. Reports said the stampede may have been caused in part by police batoncharging thousands of people gathered for a major Hindu festival.
Listen to an eyewitness account in the video below:
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