Five adults and an 8-year-old boy were trampled to death and at least 12 people injured in a stampede at a Hindu temple in southern India on Thursday, a state government official said.
The stampede happened before dawn at a hill-top temple devoted to the goddess Durga near Vijayawada, a city about 250 km (150 miles) from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh state. Around 100,000 people had gathered at the temple for the last day of a three-day religious festival.
