Many people are Hindu calendars in Maha Kumbh Mela, a huge festival of Indian City Prayagraj.
According to the government officials, as the pilgrims ran to the Ganges River and Yamuna River’s joining, which were regarded as sacred by Hinduists, thousands of people on the river were trampled, and the safety barricades were broken and the fence was withdrawn. Others tried to escape after bathing and added to confusion.
New York Times journalists saw people stretched out of the earth, covered their bodies and faces, and urgent personnel took people to stretchers and ambulances.
Nevertheless, a few hours after the stamp feed, the officials have not yet announced the number of casualties. Yogi Adinath, Prime Minister Uttar Pradesh, said in a simple speech on Wednesday that some dedications were “seriously injured.” However, according to local news reports, dozens of people have died.
“Ajay Singh, a farmer in the Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh, said,“ They invited us here. “They invited devoted people through media, channels, telephones, and newspapers, but Singh said wrongly managed the event.
When the police began to push people, he was sleeping on the banks with his family. Sing’s mother, aunt, and uncle fell, and they all injured their backs and ribs. He said that when he was trapped, he saw five bodies.
One of the world’s largest religious meetings, Prayagraj’s Kumbh Mela occurs every 12 years. The Hinduists believe that they will take a bath at the point where two holy rivers meet and help them to remove all sins and get salvation with the third mythical river called Sarasvati. Due to the favorable celestial alignment, millions of people were expected to be more than this year’s “Maha” or Great Kumbh.
There are several days that are considered auspicious for bathing during the event, but the period of starting on January 28 and heading for the morning of January 29 was believed to be particularly advantageous. The officials said that about 100 million people expected to come to the river.
The UTTAR PRADESH government, with prayagraj, estimates that a total of 400 million people will attend the festival for six weeks in all corners of India. To accommodate all of them, the government built a temporary city on the Ganges Bank with tents, toilets, streets, pontoon legs and waste management facilities. The government also built a temporary swimming platform using a sandbag so that people can easily retreat.
AditeAnath said the injured man ran to the hospital but did not say he died. He appealed to the pilgrims to perform consciousness on the nearest platform to reach the joining point. AditeAnath said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Interior Minister Amit Shah have asked him to update and help him many times.
The risk of a huge crowd was a frequent problem at Kumbh Mela and other religious events. In 2013, 42 people were killed and 45 were injured in a crush on the train platform. And in July, more than 100 people died, and many people were injured in the organization’s meeting with local experts.
Officials have focused on the safety and security of the pilgrims, much more organized since 2013. This year, the Utar Pradesh government used more sophisticated technology to monitor people’s inflow and leaks so that the police staff on the ground could redirect the crowd.
Vijay Vishwas Pant, a senior official, said pilgrims were “gradually coming and exit.” Pant said that millions of pilgrims began to speed up during the day, but there was no set formula for how the crowd would terminate, Pant said. The goal was that the pilgrims were safely moving. “All are dynamic.”
Despite the preventive measures, the festival staff and others were encouraging people to go to the joining point, and some used the public address system. Police officials could not arrange the bath area before more pilgrims rushed, officials said. As the pilgrims tried to escape, according to the witness account, they created a situation like stamped elsewhere.
The Kumbh Mela Festival, which rotates among four cities every three years, is famous as a number of Hindu devotions, including the monks and ashes of Hindu and ordinary pilgrims.
