PRIPAGRJ, India (AP) – Mourning families cremated their loved ones while others took care of their relatives injured in hospitals Thursday, a day after a jostle killed at least 30 people and injured 60 others on a shore Maha Kumbh festival in northern India.
The government of the state of the state of the Uttar Pradesh ordered a retirement judge to investigate the stampede and to subject his conclusions in a month while millions of Hindu continued the Ritual de Bain Without interruption as part of the festival in Prayagraj.
A woman cried uncontrollable while an ambulance left a hospital morgue for the cremation site.
Sharvan Kumar Chaudhary, a pilgrim injured on a stretcher in a hospital room, said: “I fell during the jostling. I was with a friend who brought me here.
Rakesh, who uses a name, is looking for missing family members who came on pilgrimage without him.
“My wife, my aunt and my children came for a bath, and they have been missing since the evening of January 28,” he said.
Witnesses said that the religious songs turned to cries and cry for help while thousands of pilgrims rushing towards a confluence of the sacred river have jumped barricades erected for a procession of holy men in Prayagraj, trampling those who were waiting for their turn to bathe in the river.
Wednesday was a sacred day in the six -week Hindu festival, and the authorities expected a record of 100 million faithful to engage in a ritual bath at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers. The Hindus believe that a drop on the Saint site can clean them with past sins and put an end to the reincarnation process.
Nearly 400 million people are expected in Prayagraj for the 45 -day festival, making it the largest religious gathering in the world. The number of people is more than the population of the United States and approximately 200 times the 2 million pilgrims who were in Saudi Arabia for the annual pilgrimage of the Hajj last year. The festival started on January 13.
