Prayagraj, India – Many people are afraid of dead and many were injured, as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to shower in a holy River at the huge Maha Comb Festival in India.
On Wednesday was a sacred day at a six -week festival, which started on January 13, and the authorities expected 100 million worshipers to participate in the shower rituals when the Gange, Yamona and the legendary sazwati were meeting.
The Maha Kumbh Festival, which is held every 12 years, is the largest religious gathering in the world. The authorities expect more than 400 million people to visit the Hajj site this year.
Below is a look at other major seals in India over the past two decades:
More than 100 people were killed in a stampede in northern India in July 2024 after a Hindu religious gathering, making it one of the bloodiest incidents in years. Thousands met in a temporary tent of an event led by a Hindu preacher in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The victims were crushed to death as they rushed to leave. A video showed that a temporary structure appeared.
The collapsed bridge caused the killing of 115 people, most of them women and children, on October 13, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims arrived at a Hindu temple in the remote town of Ratangara in the state of Maadi Pradesh on the last day of the famous 10 -day NavAratri Festival.
At least 168 people were killed and 100 people were injured when thousands of pilgrims were sealed in a Hindu temple in Godbur on September 30, 2008. It appears that severe overcrowding caused crushing, as more than 12,000 people gathered in the temple to celebrate the Hindu Festival.
Dozens of women and children were among the 145 people who passed away on August 3, 2008, when thousands of pilgrims sealed the paved of the remote mountain peak in northern India during the celebrations to honor Shakiri, Hindu gods. The fans attended a nine -day religious festival in the Nina Devi Temple in the Bilapori area, Himachal Pradesh. It appears that rumors of a landslide began to panic, according to a senior government official.
During a religious procession was killed to the Temple of the Hill Summit on January 25, 2005, at least 258 people were wounded in western India, near the village of Way, about 150 miles (241 km) south of Mumbai. Stampeed was operated after many Hindu pilgrims fell inside the temple on a slippery floor and crushed them to death by the other pilgrims who apparently followed them. Some pilgrims were angry, some pilgrims began the fire that merged hundreds of temporary stores along a narrow corridor that leads to the temple and set off in the deadly rush.
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2025-01-29 05:42:00
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