Deadly crowd incidents are a frequent occurrence at Indian religious festivals, including the Kumbh Mela, which attracts tens of millions of devotees every 12 years to the northern city of Prayagraj.

In 2013, dozens of people were killed and injured in a crowd crush at a railway station in Allahabad as pilgrims gathered for that year’s Kumbh Mela. Ahead of the festival in Prayagraj ...

At least 30 people have been killed and 60 others injured after a deadly crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering at the Mahakumbh Mela in northern India’s Prayagraj city ...

Kumbh Mela crowd crush: Scattered belongings line floor after fatal stampede in India The Maha Kumbh Mela, which takes place every 12 years, began on 13 January, with over 400 million people ...

Authorities say at least 30 people have died and a further 60 were injured in a crowd crush at the massive Kumbh Mela festival India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered his condolences to ...

Eyewitnesses are continuing to share their experiences of the crush that happened at the Kumbh Mela festival in the city of Prayagraj in the early hours of the morning. A family member of an ...

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 ...

At least 30 people have been killed in stampedes at India’s Kumbh Mela festival ... the death toll may well rise further. The pre-dawn crowd crush took place about 1km from the confluence ...