Story highlights The stampede occurred during a procession in honor of a Hindu guru

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New Delhi (CNN) The death toll from a stampede Saturday in the northern Indian city of Varanasi has climbed to 25, with five people injured, police said.

The stampede occurred at a procession in honor of the Hindu guru, Jai Gurudev, according to a spokesman in the office of the director general of police in Uttar Pradesh.

CNN affiliate CNN-News 18 said the stampede occurred in the Ramnagar area of Varanasi, near the Rajghat bridge across the river Ganga, as the Ganges River is known in Hindi.

Rescuers took the injured to the hospital.

The state government suspended five police officers for negligence, said a police spokesperson. The commissioner of Varanasi, the top government official in the city, has opened an inquiry into what happened.

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