Factbox-How Is India Managing Its Maha Kumbh Festival, the World's Largest Gathering?
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is set to be the world's largest gathering of humanity, with 400 million visitors expected at the six-week event that began this week in the northern city of Prayagraj.
Here is a list of major stampedes in India over previous years, most of them at religious festivals or gatherings ...
Dozens of people believed to be injured as the 'world's largest gathering of humanity' takes place in northern India ...
A deadly stampede on Wednesday hit India's Kumbh Mela, a vast Hindu festival held by the banks of the Ganges river that 400 ...
The Kumbh originates in a Hindu belief that four drops of the nectar of immortality fell to earth, one in Prayagraj, during a battle between the god Vishnu, known as the Preserver, and demons to ...
PRAYAGRAJ: More than seven people were killed and around 10 injured in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela or Great Pitcher ...
Dozens of people believed to be injured as the 'world's largest gathering of humanity' takes place in northern India ...
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