A woman injured in a stampede on a bridge across the Sindh River lies at a hospital in Datia, India, on Monday, October 14.
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A woman injured in a stampede on a bridge across the Sindh River lies at a hospital in Datia, India, on Monday, October 14.

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More than 100 also are injured

Police say a rumor that a bridge was collapsing sparked the stampede

Many people jumped off the bridge into the river, a police inspector says

(CNN) —  

The death toll in a weekend stampede outside a temple in central India has risen to 112, and more than 100 others are injured, authorities said.

The stampede happened Sunday on a bridge over the Sindh River in Ratangarh, where pilgrims were headed to a temple for a Hindu festival.

A rumor that the bridge was about to collapse caused panicked people to stampede, police told CNN sister network CNN-IBN. About 25,000 people were on the bridge at the time, said D.K. Arya, a local deputy police inspector.

Many people jumped off the bridge into the river, Arya said.

Ratangarh is in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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