At least, 32 people have died and many others injured in a stampede at a Hindu religious festival-Bihar-Northern India.
Bihar chief secretary Anjani Kumar Singh told the BBC that many of those killed in the incident in the state capital of Patna were women and children. Also 24 other were injured.
The stampede which broke out in Patna's Gandhi Maidan, as celebrations for the festival of Dussehra were being held-a festival where effigies of the demon king Ravana are burnt to mark the victory of good over evil-draws huge crowds.
Local journalist Niraj Sahay, who was at the scene, says an eyewitness told him that only one of the exits was opened for people to leave, as fear grip the crowd,which thought the some wires that fell were electricity wires, BBC Hindi gathered.
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