Dunyabharat: 15 people were killed and several injured in a stampede at the Kumbh festival
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15 people were killed and many injured in a stampede at the Kumbh festival in India.
According to Indian media, there was an accident on Wednesday night in the ongoing Kumbh festival in the city of Prayagraj in the state of Uttar Pradesh, where the barriers in the festival broke and fell on the crowd of thousands of people, causing panic in the crowd.
According to the Indian media, this accident happened between Tuesday and Wednesday at around 2 o'clock in the night, where thousands of people on the beach suffered panic due to the breaking of the barriers and there was a stampede in the area, as a result of which many people were killed. There are also injured.
According to the reports, the eyewitnesses say that there are fears of dozens of deaths in the accident that took place at the Kumbh festival, but the government has not officially announced the death toll.
Indian officials say about 28 million people drowned in the river as of 8 a.m. Wednesday after the accident.
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