A crowd crush has injured several people at the world’s largest religious festival in India, organizers reported Wednesday.
The crush at the Maha Kumbh Mela in the city of Prayagraj occurred after a barrier broke, according to Akanksha Rana, special executive officer for the festival. “Several people are injured and receiving treatment,” she said, adding that some of the injured had been taken to the Intensive Care Unit. Asked whether any people had died or how many had been impacted, she said officials were still assessing the extent of the damage.
Video shared on social media showed ambulances rushing past crowds of people to the site of the crush and security personnel helping devotees as scattered blankets and belongings lay strewn on the ground. Crowd crushes at religious gatherings in India are not uncommon, and deadly incidents have occurred in the past, often highlighting a lack of adequate crowd control and safety measures.
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