links of london report,Seven Hindu pilgrims have been killed in a stampede at a religious festival on the Ganges river in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.
More than 20 pilgrims have been injured in the incident, which took place when hundreds of devotees tried to board a ferry to take them to the festival.
Every winter, Sagar island hosts the festival, the Gangasagar Mela. Pilgrims bathe in the river.
links of london outletTens of thousands of devotees also pray at the temple of the sage Kapil Muni.
Separately, hundreds of thousands of devotees bathed in the cold waters of the Ganges river at the beginning of a three month-long Hindu religious festival, Kumbh Mela, in the town of Haridwar in north India.
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