New Delhi, Nov. 1 -- At least nine people, including a woman and a 12-year-old boy, were killed on Saturday in a stampede at Kasibugga temple in Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam.

The death toll was earlier put at 10 by Srikakulam District Collector Swapnil Dinkar Pundkar, but was later corrected to nine.

"Nine (deaths). Nine only, (Condition of) one person is bit serious. He is not dead. Total nine people. One child is there, a 12-year-old child; the remaining (victims) are all female. And it is a private temple. It is not a government temple. It was constructed recently," KV Maheswara Reddy, the Srikakulam Superintendent of Police, told news agency PTI.

The police official revealed that the incident occurred when an iron grill collapsed ne...