Tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims continue to attend the Kumbh Mela in India, undeterred by a stampede that killed at least 30 people the previous day. The event, the world's largest religious gathering, attracts devotees every 12 years to Prayagraj for a ritual dip in the sacred rivers Ganges and Yamuna.
UNDETERRED DEVOTEES. Naga Sadhus or Hindu holy men take a dip in Sangam, the confluence of Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers, on an auspicious occasion of ‘Mauni Amavasya’ during the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj on Thursday. A pre-dawn stampede at the world’s largest religious gathering killed at least 30 people, with many more injured after a surging crowd spilled out of a police cordon and trampled bystanders.
“We’ve obviously heard about the stampede,” 21-year-old Naveen Pradhan, who arrived at the festival with his family hours after the disaster, told AFP. Despite the early morning disaster, saffron-clad holy men continued with the day’s rituals hours later, leading millions into a sin-cleansing bath by the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers.
The Kumbh Mela is rooted in a mythological Hindu battle between deities and demons for control of a pitcher containing the nectar of immortality.
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