Several people are feared dead and many more injured as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river at the massive Maha Kumbh festival in India PRAYAGRAJ, India -- Several ...

Journeying across India ... crowd surged forward, pushing and trampling us," Laxmi, shell-shocked and huddled under a thick woollen shawl in the morning cold, told AFP. "In that chaos, my ...

Multiple people were feared dead in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering in India on Wednesday, as tens of millions of devotees went to bathe in a river on one of the most sacred ...

Authorities expect more than 400 million people to visit the pilgrimage site this year. Here’s a look at other major stampedes in India over the ... caused deadly crowd surge in 2008 Dozens ...

Prayagraj (India) (AFP) – Journeying across India for ... for a surging throng of devotees that would imminently spill over crowd control barriers and crush the dozing masses on the other ...

More than 100 people were killed in a stampede in northern India in July 2024 following a Hindu religious gathering. Thousands had gathered at a makeshift tent for an event led by a Hindu preacher ...