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THE death toll from a stampede at a railway station after a huge political rally in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh rose to 16 yesterday when two more people died in hospital, police said.

Five militants were killed and 13 policemen were wounded during a fierce three-hour gun battle in the southern Indian state of Karnataka early today, police said.

The death toll in a bus accident in southern India has risen to 31 after 11 people died in hospital overnight.

A bus has collided with an oil tanker in southern India, killing at least 20 people.