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A “stampede-like situation” astatine 1 of the biggest spiritual festivals successful India, the Maha Kumbh Mela, led to aggregate casualties connected Wednesday, constabulary said.
A monolithic crowd, estimated to beryllium 100 million, had gathered for a ritual aboriginal successful the greeting erstwhile a stampede occurred, leaving dozens of pilgrims dormant and galore much injured.
Ambulances were dispatched to the country and the injured were taken to a makeshift hospital.
What is Maha Kumbh Mela?
The Maha Kumbh Mela is 1 of Hinduism’s holiest festivals, held erstwhile each 12 years astatine Prayagraj successful India’s bluish authorities of Uttar Pradesh wherever the Ganga, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers meet.
The rivers are considered beatified by Hindus and the Hindu nationalist authorities of Narendra Modi has spent millions of rupees trying to “revive” the Saraswati
The confluence of the rivers is called Sangam and a “holy dip” successful the waters is regarded arsenic 1 of the festival’s main rituals.
The dip, called Shahi Snan oregon royal bath, attracts millions of devotees and is led by Hindu priests and ascetics.
The beatified dip is expected to pb to spiritual purification and moksha, or salvation.
Kumbh Mela and Ardh Kumbh Mela
In opposition to the Maha Kumbh Mela, the Kumbh Mela occurs each 3 years, rotating among 4 locations – Haridwar successful bluish Uttarakhand state, Ujjain successful cardinal Madhya Pradesh state, Nashik successful occidental Maharashtra state, and Prayagraj. The Ardh Kumbh Mela takes spot each six years successful Haridwar and Prayagraj.
Prayagraj was earlier known arsenic Allahabad. The sanction was changed by Adityanath’s Hindu nationalist authorities authorities successful 2018.
The 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela, moving from 13 January to 26 February, is expected to gully astir 400 cardinal pilgrims, making it 1 of the largest spiritual gatherings successful the world.
Preparation for expansive spiritual festival
To accommodate and modulate the monolithic influx of pilgrims, the authorities of Uttar Pradesh constructed a impermanent metropolis on the banks of the Ganga river, implicit with tents, toilets, streets, pontoon bridges, and discarded absorption systems.
Managing crowds has agelong been a situation astatine the Kumbh Mela festivals. In 2013, a stampede astatine a railway presumption near 42 radical dormant and 45 injured arsenic thousands of pilgrims arrived for the festival. Since then, authorities assertion to person importantly improved information measures.
Another stampede took spot successful 2001 erstwhile thousands of devotees gathered for the “holy dip” astatine a riverbank successful Haridwar.
This year, the Uttar Pradesh authorities deployed precocious exertion to way assemblage movements, allowing constabulary to modulate the travel of radical much effectively.
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