Between 90 to 100 million pilgrims had congregated to take ritual baths in sacred rivers at a festival in northern India.

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers meet, officials said.

Grieving families in India are cremating their loved ones while others are caring for their injured relatives in hospitals a ...

It was not immediately clear what triggered the panic at the festival where devotees from across India had congregated to ...

Millions continued to throng the site even as police urged them to avoid the area. Deadly stampedes are relatively common ...

Millions of Hindus are gathering in a northern Indian city for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world’s largest religious ...

It was a sacred day in the six-week Hindu festival, and authorities expected a record 100 million devotees to engage in a ...

More than 100 people were killed in a stampede in northern India in July 2024 following a Hindu religious gathering, making ...

Wednesday marks one of the holiest days in the six-week Kumbh Mela, the single biggest milestone on the Hindu religious ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Several people were feared dead and many more injured in a stampede early Wednesday as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river at the massive ...

In the wake of the Maha Kumbh stampede tragedy in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj, the state government introduced strict ...