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12 killed in stampede

Lucknow Sept. 28. At least 12 activists of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) were killed and 22 others injured in a stampede at the Charbagh railway station here this evening.

According to Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order), D. P. Sinha, the BSP workers were returning after attending the party-sponsored ``Ninda-Dhikkar maha rally'' when the accident took place at a railway overbridge.

He said the victims were going to a platform when in a sudden rush, they toppled over each other.

UNI

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