With crores of devotees arriving in Prayagraj for the ‘Amrit Snan,’ a surge in the crowd about a kilometre from the Triveni Sangam led to a chaotic situation.

Two girls and two women from Belagavi were injured in the stampede at the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj on January 29. Sarojini Dharihalli and Kanchan Koparde, BJP workers from Wadagaon, and their relatives Megha and Jyoti were injured.

Several people are feared dead and many more injured as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river at the massive Maha Kumbh festival in India.

Several people were feared dead after a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela or Great Pitcher Festival in north India's Uttar Pradesh State on Wednesday, as tens of millions gathered to take a holy dip on the six-week long event's most significant day.

Multiple casualties were feared after a stampede-like incident broke out at a Hindu religious festival, the Maha Kumbh Mela, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, India's The Hindu newspaper reported early hours,

Hundreds of millions of Hindu pilgrims gathered in Prayagraj, India, for the Maha Kumbh Mela festival, but thousands were trampled after crowds surged toward the confluence of two rivers.

A crowd crush at a Hindu festival in northern India has left at least 11 people dead and more than 50 injured, local media reported, citing hospital sources. The stampede at the the Kumbh Mela — the world’s largest religious gathering — in Uttar Pradesh state occurred in the early hours of Wednesday morning,