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The largest religious gathering in the world, Maha Compe Milla in Northern India, turned on the deadly Wednesday, where officials confirm at least 30 deaths and 60 people who were stampede on the largest day in the festival.
About 100 million people were expected to meet in one of the holiest sites for Hindu worshipers, on the banks of the Gang and Yamona.
This is not the first time that a large religious gathering in the country has tragedy.
Here is a closer look at the festival.
What is Kumbh Mela?
Maha India – or Greater – Compe Mila is the largest religious gathering in the world. It is often referred to as the “Festival Festival” and a major event in the Hindu calendar.
The age of the ceremony is centuries and is based on a story in Hindu myths, where the gods and demons fought on a jug, or compound, which contains eternity.
It attracts hundreds of millions of worshipers, holy men, tourists and politicians, and compare the banks of the holiest rivers in Hinduism to bathing in water that is holy. Decline in water is a means, for religious Hindus, to clean their sins.
Kumbh Mema happens every three years, but Maha Kumbh occurs every 12 years in Pragyaraj – a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which is especially holy because the Gange and Yamona rivers meet there. It is also the end point for the legendary Saraswati river, as shown in the old Bible.
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Maha Komba Mila, or the Great Epity Festival, is held every 12 years in the northern city of Sliger, where Hindus believes that bathing in the holy rivers brings salvation from the birth and death cycle, and the absence of sins.
This year is the most auspicious event due to a special heavenly alignment of the sun, moon and buyer, which occurs only every 144 years.
For many Hindus, such as 27 -year -old Rahul Singh, Maha Comb has not been missed this year.
“My heart is happy to be here,” Singh told CBC News earlier this week before on Wednesday.
“I will never forget this day for the rest of my life,” said Singh, who traveled 15 hours from his city more than 900 km away to attend the festival for the first time.
The authorities expect Maha Kumbh this year to break the previous attendance records.
What is really its size?
The amazing kumbh mela scale.
The government of India has repeatedly said it expected 400 million visitors this year – more than the United States – over 45 days of the festival that started on January 13.
Hundreds of millions of millions of millions of people present in other religious gatherings gather, the last of which was in 2019 about 240 million people. The pilgrimage attracted the pilgrimage last year to Mecca 1.8 million people.
Prayagraj officials have established 150,000 Porta-Potties and 175,000 tents as much as the eye can see, with 10200 sewage workers who periodically in an area covering the equivalent of 7,500 Fields of football.
About 50,000 police officers and guards were deployed.
Maha Kumbh is very huge that can be seen from Space, and she leads her to the home this week when the American astronaut, Don Pettit, who works in an extended residence at the International Space Station, posted pictures on the x social media platform, with the illustrations: “The largest human gathering In the world, well. ”
The state of the state of Uttar Pradesh has spent $ 1.1 billion from CDN on the creation of the infrastructure surrounding the huge event and technology that focuses on security and crowd management, and this mark is the first “Maha Kumbh”.
This technology included 2750 CCTV cameras supported by artificial intelligence to analyze video clips, calculate the size of the crowd and alert officers when there is an increase in people in one section of the festival.
What led to the deadly Wednesday?
Wednesday was the most auspicious day for religious gathering for six weeks, and the largest Shahi Sinan – Or the day of the holy shower – when worshipers are called, led by Hindu sacred men Naga SadosThey immersed themselves in the water in believing that it will clean their sins and purify their lives.
Government authorities estimated that about 100 million people would attend on Wednesday. Previous reports that came out of the area indicated that many bridges built around the rivers were very crowded and that the police were using loudspeakers to direct pilgrims to shorten their time in the water.
In the early hours of the morning on Wednesday, millions of pilgrims gathered on the bank of the river, with a lot of sleep near Ghats, or the sacred steps leading to the Gang River, to reserve a major place.
He watches | Many people were killed in a stampede in the religious assembly:
Indian officials say at least 30 people were killed and 60 wounded in a stampede at the Maha Compe Festival after hacked a large crowd of barriers and died people who were waiting for bathing in the holy rivers in India.
Witnesses described how the crowds suddenly rose from multiple directions, as many pushed, pushed and dragged to others who fell.
Others said they saw pills to be paid. One of the two lovers, Renault Devi, told Agence France -Presse that she was sitting near a barrier when a huge crowd came towards her.
“In the midst of pressure and leadership, the entire crowd fell over me, and they trampled me while moving forward.” “When the crowd rose, the elderly and women were crushed, and no one has applied for help.”
Officials said that some tried to climb on the police grains that were prepared for the crowd administration in order to approach the water.
What does government officials say about the stampede?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the first to confess to death, when he offered my condolences on social media to the families who lost their loved ones, describing the tragedy as “very sad.”
But that came 10 hours after the crowd rose from dozens of people, and that was several hours before officials confirmed the death toll.
The Hindu Rally is important for the Indian government and has acquired more political bearer in the years that has passed on Moody and his Hindu national party for the first time, with a greater promotion on a large scale of the Compa Milla the new base.
State officials said that there will be an investigation into what happened and compensation for the families of the victims.
How common is the seals in religious festivals in India?
It is not unusual for large religious gatherings to end in deaths in India. The last amount of Maha Compe Milla in 2013 witnessed the killing of 42 people after arriving at the main train station, as well as the most auspicious festival days and the largest festival that year.
In 1954, the tragedy also struck Kumbh Mema in what was one of the bloodiest seals in India, where at least 300 people and more than 1,000 people died.
Recently, in July 2024, 121 people were killed and more than one injury was injured in a crowd in a Hindu religious gathering in Hathras, which is also in Uttar Pradesh. The victims were mostly women and children.
