At least 18 people died on Saturday evening in a crowd in a railway station in the Indian capital, when a crowd rushed to take the trains for the largest religious gathering in the world, the Kumbh Applewhich attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful every 12 years in the northern city of Prayagraj and has a history of disasters related to the crowd, including one last month, when at least 30 people died at the confluence of the Gange rivers, Yamuna and the legendary rivers Saraswati. “I can confirm 15 deaths in the hospital. Most (probably) died of hypoxia or perhaps from some blunt wound, but this will be confirmed only after an autopsy, “he told Ritu Saxena, Deputy Deputy Superintendent of the Lok Nayak Hospital of New Delhi. «There are also 11 other wounded. Most of them are stable and has orthopedic lesions, “he said.
The NDTV broadcaster reported three other deaths in the crowd, citing an official from another hospital in the city. The Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw said that a “high -level investigation” was ordered on the causes of the accident and that other special trains have been started from New Delhi to disperse the crowd of devotees. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said to be “grieved”. Kumbh Mela, lasting six weeks, is the largest milestone of the Hindu religious calendar and officials have said that about 500 million devotees have already visited the festival since it started last month. Obtain or drown in a single day of the Festival in 1954, one of the largest tributes of victims in a disaster caused by the crowd worldwide. They died crushed in 2013, the last time the festival was held in Prayagraj.
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