At least seven people were killed and around 10 injured in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj on the most auspicious day of the six-week-long festival.

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 ...

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 ...

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

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest ... to cross a temporary pontoon bridge near where the stampede took place.Credit...Atul Loke for The New ...

open image in gallery Devotees seen trying to cross a barricade at the site of stampede amid the ongoing Maha Kumbh Mela (AFP via Getty) Several eyewitnesses described being stuck between the ...

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 ...

A “stampede-like situation” at one of the biggest religious festivals in India, the Maha Kumbh Mela, led to multiple casualties on Wednesday, police said. A massive crowd, estimated to be 100 ...

NEW DELHI, Jan 29 (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed and around 10 injured in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj on Wednesday ...

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