More than a dozen people were killed and many more injured in a crush at a huge religious festival in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state on Wednesday. India’s Kumbh Mela is a Hindu festival held by the banks of the Ganges river. The stampede appears to have happened when people who were sleeping on the river bank were trampled on by other worshippers who were trying to bathe in the holy waters.
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No amount of infrastructure could hold 400 million people in such a confined space. Stampede will happen. I have never seen our authorities have any kind of protocols when it comes to crowd management, it also doesn’t help that the politicians encourage people to go the there.
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