March 5, 2010 9:30 AM

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‘Divisional Commissioner to probe Pratapgarh stampede that claimed 63 lives

In Uttar Pradesh, the Divisional Commissioner of Allahabad will probe into the Pratapgarh stampede that killed at least 63 people and injured more than 100. The stampede took place yesterdayat the Ashram of Kripalu maharaj where a large number of people gathered at a function. Some injured shave been shifted to a Allahabad hospital. Meanwhile Pratapgarh police has registered FIR against the temple management and the organizers.The railways has also provided two trains for family members of affected people and other participants of yesterdays programme to facilitate their movement from Pratapgarh to Allahabad and to lucknow. While the SP of Pratapgarh has said that investigation will soon be over and those who are responsible will certainly face action. Congress President Sonia Gandhi today condoled the death of women and children in a stampede at an ashram of a godman near Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh. A party statement said in New Delhi that Mrs Gandhi expressed grief and conveyed her condolences to the bereaved families. 63 people were killed in the stampede and over 100 persons were injured, when poor farmers and villagers had gathered to receive food and clothes from Kripalu Maharaj's ashram at Kunda.

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