At least 15 people were mortally killed tonight in Prayagraj, in northern India, during the stampede on the mass Hindu pilgrimage of Kumbh Mela, the AFP agency reported.
Many pilgrims were injured in an accident, some seriously, and hospitalized, he said for AFP one of the doctors in the hospital of the SWAROOP Early Nehru in Prayagraj, where the victims were evacuated.
Local authorities and security forces have not yet published any report on the stampede.
At the scene of the event, the AFP reporter saw a number of victims who evacuated rescuers and believers in the blankets.
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“We went towards Sangam (the mouth of the Holy River Ganges and Yamune where ritual baths) and the roads were blocked. Suddenly the crowd began to push and many people were crushed,” he said for AFP 42-year-old Malta Pandey.
Kumbh Mela is considered the world’s largest religious gathering in which millions of Hindu devotees from all over India participate in order to bathe at the mouth of the Holy Rivers Ganges and Yamune.
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