Stampede during religious festival claims lives in India - Washington Post

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Feb. 10, 2013 

A woman watches from a staircase as rescue workers tend to the bodies of those killed in a stampede at a train station in Allahabad, India. At least 10 people were killed and a dozen more were injured Sunday at the station in the northern Indian town where millions of Hindus were gathered for a religious festival, a senior government minister said.

Kevin Frayer / AP

Feb. 10, 2013  

Authorities remove the body of a person killed during the stampede at the railway station in Allahabad. Pawan Bansal, India's railway minister, told reporters that the stampede took place as massive crowds in Allahabad for the Kumbh Mela, or Pitcher Festival, flooded the station Sunday evening, according to the Associated Press.

Roberto Schmidt / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 10, 2013  

A man denounces the police as the cause of the stampede, which killed one of his relatives. At least two television channels said as many as 20 people were feared dead and 30 others injured, according to the Associated Press. News reports said the large crowds caused a section of a footbridge at the station to collapse, leading to the stampede.

Sanjay Kanojia / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 10, 2013  

A man weeps as he holds his wife, who was killed in the stampede. News reports said the large crowds caused a section of a footbridge at the station to collapse, leading to the stampede.

Kevin Frayer / AP

Feb. 10, 2013  

The body of a pilgrim is carried away at the railway station in Allahabad. News reports said tens of thousands of people were at the train station at the time. Television showed large crowds pushing and jostling at the station as policemen struggled to restore order.

Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP

Feb. 10, 2013  

A man is loaded into an ambulance after being injured during the stampede. "There was complete chaos. There was no doctor or ambulance for at least two hours after the accident," an eyewitness told the NDTV news channel, according to the Associated Press.

Sanjay Kanojia / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 10, 2013  

A woman caresses the foot of her dead relative. An estimated 30 million Hindu devotees were expected to take a dip at the Sangam, the confluence of three rivers — the Ganges, the Yamuna and the Saraswati — on Sunday, one of the holiest bathing days of the Kumbh Mela. The festival lasts 55 days and is one of the world's largest religious gatherings.

Roberto Schmidt / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 10, 2013  

An Indian man weeps as he and other family members mourn next to the body of a relative killed in the stampede.

Kevin Frayer / AP

Feb. 10, 2013  

Women grieve the death of their family members after the stampede.

Saurabh Das / AP


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