Dozens of people were killed in a stampe A six -week festival.
Reuters reported that 39 bodies were counted in the morgue of the local hospital, where the bodies continued to arrive 12 hours after the crowds increased towards the confluence of the rivers, a place considered especially sacred to immersion.
According to two police sources, the 39 people lost their lives in the falling of the world's largest people meeting. Three police sources confirmed a number of deaths of almost 40.
“More bodies are entering. We have almost 40 bodies here. We are also transferring them and giving families one by one, ”said one of the sources in the Moti Lal Nehru Medical College Hospital.
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The senior police officer Vaibhav Krishna told journalists that 90 people were taken to the hospital after the stampede, of which 30 had died.
The anguished relatives queued to identify those killed by the stampede, which caused appeal for the authorities and politicians to be responsible.
Some witnesses talked about a great impulse that caused the devotees to fall on each other, while others said that the closing of water routes put the dense crowd to a dead point and made people collapse due to suffocation.
“There was shock, everyone began to push, throw, climb one on the other. My mother collapsed … then my sister -in -law. People ran over them, ”said Jagwanti Devi, 40, while satting in an ambulance with the bodies of his relatives.