Dozens of people killed in crowd at Kumbh Mela in India | Kumbh Mela

At least 30 people were killed in crushing and marks Kumbh Mela The festival and Indian police have confirmed as a large number of people bathed in one of the sacred sites of the Hindu crowd.

Tens of thousands of people gathered to the northern state of Uttar Pradesh in one of the most sacred days of the Hindu festival.

A senior police officer Vaibhav Krishna told a press conference that 30 people died in the early Wednesday morning and that the number was at least dark.

It is feared that the number of deaths will be higher than that of officially confirmed. Earlier, officials on the ground claimed that 39 bodies were brought to a hospital.

According to the devotees’ accounts, there were a number of crowds at around 1 am, which was a large crowd on the banks of the Yamuna and Ganga River. As the crowd increased in different directions, people began to push their way, and some tried to jump over obstacles. Many fell from the river in panic, and families who were sleeping on the ground nearby were trampled.

There were many bodies on the banks of the river. The shoes and clothes were spread to the ground, and there were scenes of frustration in the nearby temporary tent hospitals, where the dead and the injured were initially brought.

Narayan Singh Lodhi, 50, from Madhya Pradesh, said his brother -in -law Hugham Bai Lodi died after leaving his family when he went to bathe. He had three children, including a daughter who was with him at the festival.

Lodhi said the problem began when the bathrooms in the opposite directions began to clash. “I saw people falling on the ground and shouting. People began to trample each other,” he said.

“I tried to rescue many as many as possible, but only I was able to catch up with my wife and another woman. I pulled them out. I saw about 20 bodies that had died clearly on the crushed floor. Others were lying there.

More than 400 million people – the biggest meeting in the history of the event – is expected to attend the Kumbh Mela festivals this year, held in Uttar Pradesh for more than 45 days. It was expected that 100 million people would attend the festival on Wednesday alone, especially to participate in a good bath day.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has greatly raised Kumba Mela, and at the event, the posters were faced with the posters, and he praised the “unusual” and “unforgettable” meeting that he had previously attended. After Wednesday’s attraction, Modi called the incident “very sad”.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the incident was triggered by some pilgrims when they tried to overcome the barricades of the police.

Many relatives of the victims accused the police of failing to properly control the crowd and that in some areas the obstacles of pilgrims were blocked, as the Pandoon bridges across the river were blocked by ordinary pilgrims.

Lodi was among those who claimed that deaths were the failure of the authorities. “The police responsible for this disaster,” he said. “We were planning to swim in the river at 4 am, but they were already trying to get rid of everyone in the water quickly. It was their fault that everyone got into the river at the same time. Then they did not control the crowd. Now people have lost their lives.”

On Tuesday, the numbers that attended the festival were swollen beyond the expectations of the authorities, and the announcements that would be broadcast on loudspeakers urged the new arrival to get into the water, so that the place was soaked twice and then left the place immediately and called it a sin to do the third dip.

When the sun woke up on Wednesday morning, there were fanatic scenes in the booths of the missing persons, where they tried to find the missing relatives. Saroj Bakri, 60, from Madhya Pradesh, was looking for his eight -year -old grandson Sahad Bakri. Only after 36 hours of traveling for 36 hours on Tuesday night, they came to the festival, sitting on the floor, sharing a little food after taking the holy tip, and the crowd increased over them.

“Suddenly people pushed us on us and started to trample us. I got up. I was holding my grandson’s hands, but then I was thrown down.

“He was running around people but he was gone.”

Manoj Kumar Paswan 45 of Uttar Pradesh said that his 65 -year -old aunt Sanara Prajabad was missing, after they got into the river early in the morning. “There was a confusion. People started to fall to each other. There was a motivation suddenly because my aunt lost his hand.”

“It was a very painful and frightening experience. The surrounding people are crying and crying. A dozen people, including children, lie on the ground. People trampled on them.”

The Kumbh Mela The pilgrimage takes place every 12 years and is widely seen in the Hindu calendar in India as “festivals”, which is a vibrant combination SadusAsceticism, pilgrims and tourists.

This year’s celebration is especially important because the Maha or Grand Kumbh Mela takes place only every 144 years, which refers to the 12th Kumbai Mela, the special astronomy of the sun, the moon, Jupiter and Saturn.