Prayagraj, India — A pre-dawn stampede at the world's largest religious ... at Indian religious festivals, including the Kumbh Mela, which attracts tens of millions of devotees every 12 years ...

Local administrators estimate the total number of visits to this year’s Maha Kumbh over a 45-day period at a massive 663 ...

During the last Maha Kumbh Mela, in 2013, at least three dozen people died when a bridge in a train station collapsed. Hundreds of people died in a stampede during independent India’s first ...

Kumbh Mela stampede latest: Nearly 40 dead in crowd crush at world’s largest religious festival in India - Indian authorities are yet to issue an official statement but death toll is feared to ...

Jan. 28 (UPI) --Dozens of worshippers are feared dead and many more injured following a stampede or crush Wednesday at the massive Kumbh Mela religious festival in northern India, according to ...

In a post on X, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India expressed ... they created stampede-like situations elsewhere, according to witness accounts. The Kumbh Mela festival, which is rotated ...

Nearly 40 bodies were brought to a hospital morgue after a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India on Wednesday, three police sources told Reuters, as tens of millions gathered to bathe ...

Jan 29 (Reuters) - More than seven people were killed in a stampede at the ... cities only during the Kumbh Mela. The fascination with the Kumbh has spread beyond India, attracting attendance ...

Pilgrims searched for their family members after a stampede broke out at the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj, India. Credit... Supported by By The New York Times Photographs by Atul Loke It ...

open image in gallery India's prime minister Narendra Modi prays as he takes a holy dip during the ongoing Maha Kumbh Mela (Reuters ... toll from the Maha Kumbh stampede rises to at least 79.

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