Victims recall stampede horror

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Survivors of India's deadliest stampede in more than a decade yesterday recalled the horror of being crushed at a vastly overcrowded Hindu religious gathering where 121 people were killed.

A police report said more than 250,000 people attended the event in northern India's Uttar Pradesh state, more than triple the 80000 for whom organisers had permission.

Discarded clothing and lost shoes were scattered across the muddy site, an open field alongside a highway, where popular preacher Bhole Baba had held a sermon.