The scene of trampling in India on January 29
Dozens of people were killed in the dawn of January 29 at Hindu’s gathering event, Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India, according to AP.
After more than 12 hours since the tragedy occurred in the city of Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh), rescue teams continued to bring the victims’ bodies to the hospital’s morgue of Y Moti Lal Nehru school.
The police did not announce the official casualties, but Reuters cited three sources of the news that the number of deaths was almost reached the threshold of 40 people.
“Many more corpses are brought. We count nearly 40 bodies here (morgue),” according to a source.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi condolences to the victim’s relatives, but does not mention specific casualties.
Yogi Adityanath, the Uttar Pradesh state player at the festival, said the trampling began when some followers tried to jump through the barriers arranged to manage the crowd.
Hindu’s festival is expected to attract about 400 million participants. As of January 28, nearly 200 million people arrived and more than 57 million people completed the ritual of bathing the Ganges, which was considered a sacred river of India.
In another development, a plane crash occurred at Unity’s oil airport of Sudan. The plane carrying 21 people on the way to Juba capital was in distress, according to Reuters quoted the director of the Department of Information of Unity Gatwech Bipal.
Mr. Bipal said that passengers on the plane were oil workers of the GPOC Group, the joint venture between China National Petroleum Group and Nile Petroleum Group owned by South Sudan.
Among the victims were two Chinese citizens and one Indian.
It is still not clear the cause of the plane, as well as the relevant details. Only one person on the plane was lucky to survive.