Officials said on Wednesday that dozens of people are in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh festival of India, as thousands of people left for a religious gathering to offer their prayers by Riverbank of Northern City, Shremaraj.
The news agency Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted an officer on duty, Akanaksha Rana as saying, “Some people have been injured and BU has been admitted to the hospital after a barrier at the confluence. Till the time those injured are counting, the news agency Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted Akanaksha Rana, an officer on duty, saying.
Many people are feared to be dead
A few hours after the stampede, the authorities did not announce any official death.
About 40 bodies were brought to a hospital morgue near a stampede site, three police sources told the Reuters News Agency.
The AFP news agency reported that at least 15 people were killed and after several more injured crowd, a police crowd and trampled bites were injured.
Family members were waiting outside the hospital in videos and photos, and the chaotic crush site scattered clothes on the ground, and clothes, bags and jackets.
PTI news agency said that both Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath have also been informed on this situation.
“All of you should follow the instructions of the administration and cooperate in making arrangements. Adityanath wrote on X.
Millions of pilgrims visit the site to wash their sins
The Kumbh Mela is the largest gathering of humanity in the world – where everything is gathered once on the meeting points of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythological Saraswati of the family, humble and elderly pilgrims rivers.
Millions of people bathe in the river water because they believe that the ritual removes their sins and frees them from the cycle of rebirth.
This year’s festival – which prefix ‘Maha’ means ‘Great’ – is believed to have one of the special importance with astrologers that the alignment of stars has not been discovered in 144 years.
The 45-day festival is an important cultural program for Hindus in India, which is about 80% of the country’s more than 1.4 billion.
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Auspicious bath day sees the huge influx of devotees
The Wednesday festival was an important holy day, with millions of people in the Ganges and Yamuna Sangam with the saffron-clad holy men and the rituals at the Yamuna Sangam. Despite the stampede, the crowd continued to gather, the police urged them to stay away through megaphone.
The authorities were expected to be the most crowded day of the festival on Wednesday as worshipers believe that bathing on the day gives a unique opportunity to be blessed by the ancestors.
The Uttar Pradesh state government had expected about 100 million devotees to visit the site, the authorities in a press briefing in January.
MK/RM (AP, AFP, Reuters)