Word: mudstretch
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Consolation. Not until many hours later, when police cordoned off the deathly mudstretch, did India learn the extent of the tragedy. The toll: 316 dead (267 women & children); 200 missing, probably dead; 2,000 injured. Many of the hurt ones could not be traced because their relatives had dragged them off, not to hospital but to the sacred confluence, in the belief that its touch might heal their suffering...
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