on "Mauni Amavasya" or new moon day during the Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, India, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP The stampede began in the ...

A “stampede-like situation” at one of the biggest ... on the eve of the start of the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj on 12 January 2025 (AFP via Getty) The dip, called Shahi Snan or ...

Vivek Mishra, a social media content creator based in Prayagraj, told Hindustan Times that the stampede took place at around 2.30 am when a large number of devotees reached the Sangam banks.

Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state where the festival city of Prayagraj is located, said the stampede was set off when some devotees tried to jump barricades put up to manage ...

Stampede in Kumbh Mela 2025: Over 10 dead, and multiple casualties feared after a "stampede-like" situation broke out at the Sangam on Wednesday early morning (3 am) amid the ongoing Maha Kumbh ...

In 2013, at least 40 pilgrims who were taking part in the festival were killed in a stampede at a train station in Prayagraj.Deadly stampedes are relatively common around Indian religious ...

Devotees try to leave the area after a deadly stampede before the second “Shahi Snan” (royal bath), at the “Maha Kumbh Mela” or the Great Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, India on January 29.

Millions of Hindu pilgrims have arrived at the festival in Prayagraj in the northern Uttar ... officers initially dismissed the report of a stampede, which took place about 1km away from the ...

A stampede during the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj killed at least 30 and injured 60 as crowds surged towards the riverbank, prompting calls for an inquiry. A pre-dawn stampede on the holiest day of ...

With crores of devotees arriving in Prayagraj for the ‘Amrit Snan,’ a surge in the crowd about a kilometre from the Triveni Sangam led to a chaotic situation. Chaos unfolded at the Sangam in ...