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Son Parameswar holds his invalid mother Tilara Devi, 80, for a holy dip on the occasion of Makar Sankranti at Gangasagar on Sagar Island, the confluence of the Ganges river and Bay of Bengal, about 140 kilometers, (87 miles) south of Calcutta, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2010. Seven devotees were crushed to death in a stampede at a river jetty as anxious Hindu pilgrims jostled their way into a boat to reach a temple. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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