Mahakumbh stampede: Updates

Mahakumbh stampede updates: At least 30 people were killed and 60 others injured in a stampede that broke out at the Mahakumbh Mela in the early hours of Wednesday, deputy inspector in general ... A stampede at the Sangam area during the Maha Kumbh in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj on Wednesday led to the death of 30 people and injured 60 others. Officials said chaos erupted when devotees tried to jump over barricades set up to control crowds as sadhus took the holy dip. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered a judicial inquiry into the incident Maha Kumbh Stampede Live: Stampede at the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj has claimed 30 lives, with 25 victims identified so far. Efforts are underway to ascertain the identities of the remaining five. On 29 January 2025, crowd crushes occurred at the 2025 Prayag Kumbh Mela [1][2] at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and Saraswati rivers in Prayagraj, [3] in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. At least 30 [4] people were killed, while 90 others were injured. [5] This is the sixth crowd crush during the Kumbh Mela in the past 70 years. [6] A second crush in the following hours [7] killed seven people including a three-year-old child. [8] The official death toll count has been ...