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Pilgrims at Chamunda Devi trampled to death in scramble over entry to the hilltop shrine
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Jodhpur: At least 150 people were crushed to death and 55 others injured in a stampede on Tuesday morning, caused by a rush of devotees in the Chamunda Devi temple in the 15th century Mehrangarh Fort, on the first day of the Navratri festival.
In a virtual repeat of the Naina Devi temple stampede in Himachal Pradesh on August 3, in which 162 people were killed, 147 devotees, mostly men, died when
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