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'Overcrowding' led to Allahabad India stampede

A stampede at a railway station in the northern Indian city of Allahabad in which at least 36 people died may have been caused by overcrowding, India's railway minister has said.

Pawan Kumar Bansal said there were "too many people on the platforms".

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