At least 30 people died in northern India on Wednesday, when Stamped broke out at the Mahakamb Festival held in Playa Graj.
Maha Kumbu is an important Hindu event, the world's largest religious rally, far exceeding Mecca and Medina Saudi Arabia, made by Muslims every year.
India prediction This year's festival contains more than 400 million participants, including many guests in other countries. The size of the ceremony is about 15 square miles, and participants only take six weeks to complete the bathing ceremony. Tent City, built to accommodate them, has thousands of kitchens, 1 do -do hospitals, and about 50,000 security personnel.
Maha Kumbu bathes ratically in the sacred sea of the Ganges and rotates between several sacred places each year. The water near PRAYAGRAJ is considered to be the most auspicious place, and the alignment of the stars and planets is particularly advantageous, so it was expected to have a really large turnout.
The Indian rule is Hindu's nationalist BJP, so Maha Kumbu also has a political aspect. After losing many seats, the rough election has just approached the loss of the Prime Minister's office, and BJP is eager to demonstrate both the pride of Hindu and the ability to manage huge events. did.
On Wednesday, it brought many terrible stampedes that crushed worshipers under the feet of other people. When the top BJP staff in Uttar Pradesh happened to be a major religious leader known as Yogi Aditijanas Arrived Hundreds of pilgrims tried to climb the barricade with desperate efforts to see him to participate in the bath festival.
“Suddenly, we were trapped in the crowd, we were trapped. Many of us fell down and the crowd was not controlled. Witnesses told the Indian media.
Foreign journalists covering this event It has been reported Seeing a huge number of casualties spreading to the ground, it is being carried out by a stretcher. Many of them are covered with ominous shroud. Most of the victims were sitting and lying on the riverbank when stamped rolled them. Some of them were clearly asleep when they were trampled.
“It was around 1:45 am. People were flat and flat, and I was able to see the rapid increase in humanity going forward. When a tragedy happened, many women and children I was sleeping and I was paralyzed by such a crowd, and one hour later, I saw a body without life on the ground. I said。
Adityanath presumed that 90-10 million were packed in sacred places when stamped broke out. About one -third of them had a sacred bath before he arrived on Wednesday morning.
Reuters Counted Twelve hours after Stamped, he said that 39 bodies and more corpses were still arrived.
Adityanath expressed the sorrowful DOL to the victims, pledged a state of about $ 29,000 per victim, and promised a complete survey on how stampeded had occurred. None of these promises did not meet political opposition. This was blamed for BJP by accidentally managing pilgrimage and trying to neglect the terrible scale of stamped. It took almost half a day for officials to officially sign about the number of deaths and the number of injuries.
“It is responsible for this tragic case to focus on the VIP exercise instead of the management mistake and the general of the administration,” said Rahul, the main character of the opposition of the Indian Council. Gandhi has declared.
Gandhi has criticized BJP to parade political and entertainment celebrities through MAHA Kumbh to create advantageous media reports. The number of VIP guests at the time was particularly high because the nature of the star and planet calendar, which determines the timing of the pilgrimage created on Tuesday and Wednesday, is the most auspicious day to take a sacred bath.
Another problem is that a specific area of the Ganges River, which meets the Yamununa River and the Saraswati River, is considered very sacred. The point of the exercise is to immerse the accurate place where the gods are said to have spilled precious immortal elixir drops during the battle with the devil at dawn.
Yogi Aditijanato spread throughout the specified region and urged worshipers to take a bath using dozens of platforms, but many of them argue that many of them are seeking a sacred river. I did.
“With the improvement of the crowd control and the proper police, this tragedy would have been easier, but the administration blocked over 28 platoon bridges leading to the river and VIP. It is made to make a reservation and leads to confusion. ” I said Deutsche Welle (DW).
MAHA Kumbh has previously suffered from a fatal stamped. Haji pilgrimage Mecca, where managers are often criticized, just like the Maha Kumbu organizer. This year's MAHA Kumbh security has been enhanced with advanced technology, such as AI -boosted video monitoring, drones, and electronic tracking bracelets for all participants, but all of them have broken out of stumped. It didn't help to prevent it.
“Almost all religious stamps, overcrowded, crowd management, rumors, rumors and panic have brought a terrible tragedy,” a private security consultant sighed. DW.
