At least 13 women traveling to a Hindu festival were trampled to death Wednesday in a northern Indian railway station where 42 others were injured, officials said. The stampede began when two trains arrived around noon on adjacent platforms and a large crowd rushed to change trains at the station in Mughalsarai in Uttar Pradesh, said railway official Mridul Narain. «It seems a majority of the people were traveling without ticket. When they saw ticket checkers checking tickets they wanted to go back, and this triggered the stampede,» the Associated Press quoted Narain as saying. Police official Kashmira Singh said the 13 women were elderly and tripped and «people just trampled over them.» They were from the neighboring state of Bihar, he said.
