'Indian guru not hiding after deadly stampede'

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MAINPURI, India — The self-styled Indian preacher whose latest sermon ended in a deadly stampede is not hiding from police, his lawyer told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday, without disclosing the guru's whereabouts.

MAINPURI, India — The self-styled Indian preacher whose latest sermon ended in a deadly stampede is not hiding from police, his lawyer told Agence France-Presse on Thursday, without disclosing the guru's whereabouts.Bhole Baba's prayer meeting near the northern city of Hathras saw the deaths of 121 people, the vast majority of them women, after a rush to the exits among the 250,000 devotees who came to watch him preach.

'An investigation is going on. We will participate,' he said.Singh declined to confirm Baba's exact location to AFP beyond saying he remained in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, home to his monastery in the city of Mainpuri and the nearby site of the stampede.A police charge sheet issued after the stampede named several organizers of the prayer meeting sought for arrest, but Baba's name was not among them.

 

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