Death toll in stampede at Hindu festival in India rises to 31

ALLAHABAD, India -- An official says the death toll from a stampede during a Hindu festival in northern India has risen to 31.

Medical superintendent Dr. P. Padmakar of the main state-run hospital said Monday that at least 30 other pilgrims were injured in the crush at the main rail station in the pilgrim city of Allahabad.

Padmakar said 23 of the dead were women.

Tens of thousands of people were in the station when a section of a footbridge there collapsed, leading to the stampede late Sunday.

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  An Indian woman weeps as she and other family members mourn next to the body of a relative who was killed in a stampede on a railway platform at the main railway station in Allahabad, India, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. (AP / Kevin Frayer)

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  An Indian man weeps as he holds his wife who was killed in a stampede on a railway platform at the main railway station in Allahabad, India, on Feb. 10, 2013. (AP / Kevin Frayer)