Nepal, June 4 -- A stampede broke out Wednesday as a tightly packed crowd celebrated the victory of their home cricket team in the Indian city of Bengaluru, resulting in deaths, a senior government official said.

India media reported as many as 11 people had been crushed to death, but Karnataka state's Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar said he was not able to immediately confirm the exact number who had been killed.

"The tragedy and death have brought deep pain and shock", Shivakumar said in a statement. "My condolences to the deceased. My condolences to their family."

An AFP photographer saw vast crowds as a sea of people crammed the streets and police waved sticks.

Shivakumar said "hundreds of thousands of people" had flocked onto...