Two Deaths at 800K-Strong Religious Gathering; Officials Cite Medical Emergencies, Deny Crowd Failures

State authorities attribute both fatalities to pre-existing medical causes at a mass pilgrimage drawing up to 900,000 devotees, but no independent verification confirms cause-of-death amid India's fraught history of crowd-crush incidents.

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