Stampede at popular religious shrine in India’s Kashmir kills 12

Twelve people were crushed to death in a stampede at an Indian religious shrine in the early hours of Saturday as tens of thousands of pilgrims massed to offer prayers, officials said.The disaster unfolded in darkness at around 3am on the packed route to the Vaishno Devi shrine in Indian-administered Kashmir, visited by millions every year as one of Hinduism’s most revered sites.“People fell over each other … It was difficult to figure out whose leg or arms were tangled with whose,” survivor…