Overcrowding, lack of exits and mud contributed to a deadly stampede in India

Uttar Pradesh State Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visits the place where a fatal stampede took place in Fulrai village of Hathras district (Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP)

Severe overcrowding and a lack of exits contributed to a stampede at a religious festival in northern India that killed at least 121 people, authorities have said.

Five of those died on Wednesday morning, local official Manish Chaudhry said, and 28 people were still being treated in a hospital.