Eyewitnesses and hospital sources have told the BBC that at least a dozen people have been killed in Wednesday morning's crush at the Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj. There is, however, still no word ...

At least 15 people are feared dead and many more injured in a stampede ... the point where India's Ganges river meets Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers. “At least 15 people” were ...

Before starting their investigation they want to find out more about the river ... is there and they need Ganges water. And at the time after death, the body is cremated on the bank of the ...

Every twelve years, tens of millions of men, women and children gather on the flood plain of the Ganges and ... because the body's ashes can be sprinkled into the sacred river; ash is therefore ...

while the state chief minister has ordered an inquiry into the incident One victim who spoke to the BBC's team on the ground described being pushed into the Ganges River as he went to participate ...