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Kolkata: Three persons died while over two dozen were injured in a stampede early on Friday after a portion of a temple wall in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district collapsed, police said. "The death toll is three," an officer manning the state police control room here told IANS. State Food and Supplies Minister Jyotipriya Mallick said there were 10,000 people in the queue when the stampede occurred. The injured were being treated also at a hospital in Basirhat of North 24 Parganas, besides three state-run medical colleges in Kolkata. The state government also announced to bear the entire medical expenses of the injured..