CRUSHED TO DEATH.
AT HINDU FESTIVAL. MAD RUSH TO THE GANGES, f 35 FATALITIES REPORTED. ( \ (Australian and N.Z. Cabl6 Assn). V DELHI, April 13. >A Thirty-five people, mostly women,- | were crushed to death in a wild rush; j of 1000 Hindus for the honour of being first to bathe in the Ganges at Kumbh Mela, the famous United Provinces festival which is held ever/ twelfth year.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17077, 14 April 1927, Page 7
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