Moments before deadly stampede at India's Maha Kumbh, devotees pleaded to open more routes
Moments before a deadly stampede at the world's biggest religious gathering in India, Hindu devotees queuing to take a spiritual bath in a river said they pleaded with police to open barricaded routes to thin out a surging crowd.
Many were feared dead after millions of Hindu pilgrims at a huge Hindu festival in India rushed to bathe in holy river waters ...
Hundreds died in a stampede at the first Kumbh Mela in independent India in Allahabad in 1954 – a disaster caused by ...
Officials had been preparing for months for the world’s largest religious festival, with around 400 million Hindu pilgrims ...
Three people, including two women, from Haryana were among those who died in a stampede at the Mahakumbh mela in Prayagraj, ...
The day after the stampede, traces of the incident are still visible — not only in the increased security detail and police pickets all the way to the ghat but also in the demeanour of the nervous ...
Sanjay Nishad, the minister of fisheries in the Uttar Pradesh government and chief of the Nishad party called the stampede a ...
The tragic stampede at the 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj, which left 30 dead, highlights VIP culture, crowd mismanagement, and downright absymal planning.
In addition to the inquiry, Adityanath announced an ex gratia payment of Rs 25 lakh for the families of each deceased victim.
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