The death toll from a stampede that broke out at a religious gathering in northern India has risen to 121, a minister of the Uttar Pradesh state government said on Wednesday. Thousands of people had gathered on Tuesday for a prayer meeting and sermon organized by a local guru at a tent off a highway in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district. Eyewitnesses reported people suddenly rushed out of the crowded venue as the guru departed. Many slipped and fell along a ditch filled with mud and water. Most of the deaths were caused by suffocation and trampling, a local administration official said. Uttar Pr…