World News 28-01-2005 who: Police chief VN Deshmukh what: Says 300 died in stampede at Hindu festival where: India when: Tuesday snippet: "The stampede happened during a pilgrimage to the remote Mandhar Devi temple in western Maharashtra state," says the BBC. "Officials say thousands panicked during a religious procession after a fire broke out in roadside stalls. Many pilgrims were crushed and burned to death as the fire forced crowds into a narrow stairway leading to the hilltop temple." Elsewhere, The Scotsman reports on the massive slum clearance project in nearby Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, where about half the population of 17 million live in a "sprawling mass of tin, wood and cardboard dwellings". [... more]

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