India's government reported that over 420 million pilgrims bathed at the Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj. The number is ...

The last major Kumbh-related crush happened at Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad) railway station in 2013 when 30 pilgrims died ...

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 ...

The incident happened at the Kumbh Mela festival when people who were sleeping by the riverbanks in Prayagraj were trampled ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...