The tragedy was held on Wednesday morning in Playa Grage, an Indian city. According to AFP, when faithful people rushed to participate in the Gangs river ritual bath, they lay out the people who were sleeping on the riverbank.
This caused a panic among other festival participants who started running and withdrawing by crushing more people.
A tragedy during celebration of holidays in India. The balance of victims is increasing
Reuters added 39 bodies to local hospital fences. Three police officers have confirmed that there are almost 40 deaths in an interview with the institution.
Local doctors also check this. -The more victims are still coming. There are almost 40 bodies here. We move them and give them one by one -he gave Reuters to one of the executives of the Motiral Neloo Medical College Hospital.
Initially, the police notified about 30 killings and 90 injured people.
Authorities say that more than 57 million people took a sacred bath on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned tragedy and called the occurrence of panic “very sad” and created the deepest path of pathos.
“I hope all the injured people are hoping for a quick recovery,” he said.
A tragedy at the Indian religious festival. Panic explosion hindered the ritual
Kumbh Mela for 6 weeks is the most important event in the Hindu religious calendar. The most important day of the festival is on Wednesday -thereafter, millions of faithful people take the ritual purification from sin on the traces of the Ganges and Jamna.
The authorities tried to keep the crowd away from the tragedy place and give a faithful person to take a bath elsewhere.
However, faithful people were still breaking through Cordon to reach the river.
Rahul Gandhi, an Indian opposition leader, has accused authorities for bad crowds management that supports the comfort of privileged guests.
“Instead of ordinary faithful people, the incompetence and special management of VIP are responsible for this tragedy,” he wrote on social media.
Source: Reuters, AFP, CNN
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