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Safety officers make method for an ambulance as Hindu devotees collect for a holy dip by the banks of the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the legendary Saraswati rivers, on Mauni Amavasya’ or new moon day throughout the Maha Kumbh competition in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, Wednesay, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photograph/Deepak Sharma)
NEW DELHI – Tens of hundreds of individuals at a massive religious gathering in India rushed to take a holy tub within the nation’s northern Prayagraj metropolis, setting off a stampede early Wednesday that injured dozens, native media reported.
It was not instantly clear what triggered the panic on the Maha Kumbh competition the place devotees had congregated from throughout India to wash on the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the legendary Saraswati rivers. Information company Press Belief of India cited authorities who mentioned injured have been despatched to a hospital.
The Maha Kumbh competition, held each 12 years, began on Jan. 13 and has been touted by Indian authorities because the world’s largest non secular gathering. Authorities anticipate greater than 400 million folks to throng the pilgrimage website in whole over the subsequent six weeks.
Stampedes are relatively common round Indian non secular festivals, the place massive crowds collect in small areas with shoddy infrastructure and few security measures.
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