(29 Jan 2025)
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Prayagraj, India – 29 January 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Pan of crowd
2. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) no name given, witness:
“Many people got up (from the ground) and I also got up and left, there was a stampede, I came here. I have not taken a bath yet, trying to get there (to take a bath).”
3. Police personnel directing crowds
4. Various of crowd moving through the festival
STORYLINE:
A stampede injured dozens of people early Wednesday as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river at the massive Maha Kumbh festival in northern India, local media reported.
Images from the scene in the northern city of Prayagraj showed rescuers helping the injured as police tried to manage the massive crowds.
An eyewitness said the stampede happened after people stood up.
It was not immediately clear what triggered the panic at the festival where devotees had congregated from across India to bathe at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers.
News agency Press Trust of India cited authorities who said the injured were sent to a hospital.
The Maha Kumbh festival, held every 12 years, started on Jan. 13 and has been touted by Indian authorities as the world’s largest religious gathering.
Authorities expect more than 400 million people to throng the pilgrimage site in total over the next six weeks.
Stampedes are relatively common around Indian religious festivals, where large crowds gather in small areas with shoddy infrastructure and few safety measures.
AP Video shot by Deepak Sharma
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