At least 40 people, including nine children, were killed in a stampede at a political rally in India's southern Tamil Nadu state on Saturday, officials say. Authorities say the crowd that turned out to see popular actor and politician Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar, known as Vijay, was far larger than the 10,000 people that organizers had expected and they were overwhelmed.
The death toll following a stampede at a political rally for a popular Indian actor and politician in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has climbed to 40, the state's he
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