Dozens of devotees fell in a heap from a 65-foot-high temporary wooden platform during a Jain festival at #Baghpat in #UP, leaving seven people dead and at least 40 injured.

The accident happened at Nirvana Laddu Festival of Lord Adinath in Manastambha complex when a bamboo-made staircase to the unsteady platform gave way.

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