Anxious relatives have spent the night searching through rows of bodies for family members after 145 people were killed in a stampede at a remote Hindu temple in India.

Thousands of panicked pilgrims stampeded today at a remote mountaintop temple in northern India, sending dozens of people plummeting to their deaths and trampling scores more.

At least 68 pilgrims, including 30 children, have been killed in a stampede at a mountaintop Hindu temple in northern India, according to police.