Officials have just announced that 30 people were killed and 60 were injured during the crush at Kumbh Mela festival. Of ...

At least seven people have died in multiple stampedes at India’s Kumbh Mela festival, as millions of Hindu devotees gathered ...

A senior police officer said at least 30 people died as a crowd panicked at the Hindu Kumbh Mela mega-festival in the ...

At least 30 people have been killed in a crush at the world's largest religious gathering, the Hindu festival Kumbh Mela in ...

India's Kumbh Mela festival attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful to Prayagraj in northern Uttar Pradesh state, but ...

A barrier reportedly broke during a holy bath, injuring several devotees at the world's largest religious gathering.

Officials had been preparing for months for the world’s largest religious festival, with around 400 million Hindu pilgrims ...

At least 30 people have been killed and dozens more injured in crowd crushes at the Maha Kumbh Mela in India, where millions ...

Journeying across India for the pinnacle celebration of the Hindu calendar, Laxmi and her family were sleeping by the ...

Accidents such as the deadly stampede at the Kumbh Mela festival in January 2025 are a notorious feature of Indian religious ...

Despite extensive crowd control measures, a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela highlights gaps in crowd management systems.

Devotee Sarojini questions what the police were doing when the crush happened Eyewitnesses are now telling the BBC about the crowd crush at the Kumbh Mela festival. Umesh Agrawal describes that ...