Stampede at the Indian Kumbh Mela Hindu Mega-Festivala leaves at least 30 people dead, says the police

Moyagraj, India -Tempedo before dawn at the largest religious gathering on Wednesday, at least 30 people in India were killed on Wednesday, and many more injured after she had shed a pile from a police cordon and raised passers -by.

Deadly incidents of crowds are frequent The phenomenon at Indian religious festivalsIncluding Kumbh Mela, which attracts tens of millions of devotees every 12 years to the northern town of Moyagraj.

While pilgrims rushed to participate in the Holy Day of Ritual Bathing, people sleeping and sitting on the ground near Rijeka said AFP said that they were treading the huge bchat naters who came to them in the darkness.

“The whole crowd fell on me, trampling me as she moved forward,” Pilgrim told Renu Devi, 48, for AFP. “When the crowd grew up, the elderly and women were demolished and no one came to help.”

The rescue teams who transported the victims from the scene of the accident made their way through piles of clothing, shoes and other discarded things. The police were seen carried by the bodies of the victims drawn with thick blankets.

“The thirty devotees unfortunately died,” said High policeman Vaibhav Krishna to reporters during an evening press conference at the festival. “Ninety injured was taken to the hospital.”

Krishnini Brifing followed almost 18 hours after Stampede and was the first official number of deaths given by the authorities.

Otherwise, it was allowed to continue almost as normal during the day, and millions continued to go to the river coast to immerse themselves in the water.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Stampede “extremely sad” and provided his “deepest condolences” to the relatives killed, adding his wishes “for the rapid recovery of all injured”.

Dozens of relatives were eagerly awaiting news in front of a large tent who served as a deliberately built hospital for the festival near the site of the disaster.

The six -week Kumbh Mela is the only largest turning point on the Hindu religious calendar. Wednesday marks one of the most holy days at the festival, when holy people lined with saffron leads millions in a ritual of purification of sin in bathing at the mouth of the Ganges River and Yamuna in tandem with planetary alignment in the solar system.

Officials tried to distract the crowds from the site of the disaster, instructing them to bathe in other locations.

“We humbly ask that not all devotees come to the main place to swim,” said one festival clerk, and his voice broke through the megaphone.

“Please cooperate with the safety staff.”

But even while the news of Stamped spread, the crowds pushed through Cordons to move towards the river, shining aggressive police commands to turn back.

Uttar Pradesh State Government officials, responsible for setting up the festival, said that millions participated in ritual bathing through the day.

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi blamed the catastrophe for poor control of the crowd, which prioritized priority influenced by distinguished visitors.

“The poor management and special focus of the administration on the VIP Movement instead of the common devotees are responsible for this tragic incident,” he wrote on social networks.

Ashtabhuja Singh Railway Police Superintendent said AFP said that the special trains services that the pilgrims took to Molagraj were still running after the earlier reports that they had been stopped for crowds in the city.

“My family scared, so let’s leave,” participant Sanjay Nishad told AFP.

Kumbh Mela is rooted in a mythological Hindu battle between the deities and demon for the control of the castle containing the nectar immortality.

The organizers compared the proportions of this year’s festival with a temporary country, predicting that up to 400 million pilgrims would visit the last day of February 26.

Police installed hundreds of cameras this year in the festival site and on roads leading to the rug, mounted on the pillars and fleet of overhead drones.

The surveillance network enters the sophisticated command and control center meant to warn the staff if parts of the crowd are so concentrated that they represent a security threat.

“If you see ads, the Government seems to provide world class contents,” said Ruchi Bharti University student, said AFP not far from Rijeka.

“But this stampedo proved that it was all a lie.”

More than 400 people died after they fell or drowned at the Kumbh Mela on one day of the festival in 1954, one of the biggest tolls into a catastrophe associated with a globally -level crowd. Another 36 people were demolished to death in 2013The last time the festival was stored in Moyagraj.