A grenade explosion and a subsequent stampede during a Hindu festival in north-eastern India left four people dead and 40 injured, including at least four foreigners.

A grenade blast in a Hare Krishna temple during a major Hindu religious festival killed four people in India’s northeast today, police said.

Mystery surrounded the whereabouts of the family of the late Beatle George Harrison today, as Hare Krishna devotees backed away from earlier claims that they would spread his ashes in India’s holy Ganges River.