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		</div><p>At least 19 people have been killed and 25 others injured in a stampede as they were crossing a crowded bridge to reach the venue of a Hindu religious ceremony in northern India, police said.</p>
<p>The stampede happened on the outskirts of Varanasi, a city in Uttar Pradesh state known for its temples, said police officer Kumar Prashant.</p>
<p>Another police officer, SK Bhagat, said organisers were expecting 3,000 Hindu devotees at the ceremony, but that more than 70,000 thronged the ashram of a local Hindu religious leader, Jai Baba Gurudev, on the banks of the Ganges River.</p>
<p>&#8220;We were not prepared for such a large crowd,&#8221; Raj Bahadur, a spokesman for the organisers, told the Associated Press.</p>
<p>The stampede happened as police started turning people away from the overcrowded bridge, the Press Trust of India news agency cited Mr Bahadur as saying. That triggered a rumour among the devotees that the bridge had collapsed, and they started running for safety, he said.</p>
<p>Mr Prashant said 19 people were killed and 25 others were taken to hospital, some of them in a serious condition.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was deeply saddened by the tragedy.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have spoken to officials and asked them to ensure all possible help to those affected,&#8221; he tweeted.</p>
<p>Deadly stampedes are fairly common during Indian religious festivals, where large crowds gather in small areas with few safety or crowd control measures.</p>
<p>In October 2013, a stampede in Madhya Pradesh state in central India killed more than 110 people, mostly women and children.</p>
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