Religion news reported about the death of at least 7 in the crush at India’s Mahakumba Religious Festival

The world’s largest religious program led to a crowd of crowd, in which hundreds of crore people participated.

According to reports, more than seven people – and possibly more than 15 – have been killed by 15 – and many more injured, and many more injured, which in the world’s largest religious festival in northern India, crowds in the crowd. It’s a crush.

The witnesses counted several bodies, and a doctor told the AFP news agency at the festival site in the city of Prayas in Uttar Pradesh that 15 people were killed in a crush near a river bank on Wednesday morning.

“More than seven people have been killed in Stamped, and around 10 others were injured,” an officer who did not want to name the media, The Reuters News Agency said, “an officer who was not authorized to talk to the media,” said an official. Told it.

The footage of the rescue teams carrying the victims from the religious site showed clothes, shoes and other sacrifices in the entire ground, as the police officers affected the bodies of the victims to the stretcher of the ambulance wrapped with blankets. Was taken with blankets.

The final death is yet to be confirmed and relatives of the injured victims worryingly about one kilometer (half mile) festival from the accident site waiting for a large tent to serve as a hospital constructed as a hospital for a purpose. They were

Officials said a rapid action force (RAF) – a special unit called during crisis – was deployed in the area to bring the situation under control, and the rescue efforts were going on, the officials said.

According to the ANI news agency report, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi spoke to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and “gave directions for generalization of status and relief”, ANI News Agency report.

The Mahakumba Mela, or the Great Pitcher Festival, is the largest milestone on the Hindu religious calendar, and was expected to travel 400 million pilgrims before the last day of the festival on 26 February.

The festival is being held on a 10,000 -acre site (4,046 hectares), where temporary tents have been constructed to accommodate pilgrims. On Wednesday, one of the holiest days in the six-week festival is one of the holy days, due to the pilgrims in a procession of sin-cleaning at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in Prayagraj with the holy men.

Officers with Loudhailers urged the pilgrims to stay away from water as the crush started in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

“We humbly request that not all devotees come to the main bathing site,” a festival employee said, their voice is cracking through their megaphone. “Please cooperate with security personnel.”

Every 12 years are held at four places – Prayagraj, Haridwar, Nashik and Ujjain – The Hindu believes that the festival is an opportunity for them to wash their sins as they participate in a day on the banks of holy rivers. To participate in the holy rivers gather.

Indian religious festivals regularly crush deadly crowds, and Mahakumba – often called Kumbh – claims a serious track record for deadly events.

More than 400 people died in a day of the festival in 1954, which is one of the most deadly events of its kind, after trampling or drowning.

In 2013, another 36 people were crushed – the last time the festival was staged in Prayagraj.

This year, the police had installed hundreds of cameras at the festival site and on the roads leading to infiltration on the roads, a control center meant to consume employees if the crowd sections became very dense and threatened to security.