As many as 300 Hindu pilgrims may have been crushed or burned to death in a stampede near a temple in western India.
150 bodies have been recovered and a further 100 or so are still unaccounted for.
It is believed a number of people have also died after shops nearby were gutted by fire.
Authorities said that over 150,000 people were taking part in the pilgrimage to the remote Mandar Devi temple on a hill near Wai, around 260km southeast of Bombay.
Maharashtra state Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh was quoted by local television as saying the stampede was probably triggered by a fire caused by an overhead power cable along a narrow path to the top of the hill.
