SHIMLA, August 3, 2008 (AFP) - More than 120 Hindu worshippers were killed Sunday in a stampede during a religious festival in the northern Indian hill state of Himachal Pradesh, police said.

'One hundred and twenty-three people have died,' said D.S Minhas, the state's additional director general of police.

The accident took place at the famed Naina Devi temple, where tens of thousands of people have been gathering for the festival that started Saturday.