The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards, sending a stream of ...

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and ...

The estimate is that over 100 million people were gathered to bathe in the Ganges River, in the celebration of Kumbh Mela. Never in history had so many people gathered in one place: 400 million people ...

For millions of Hindu pilgrims at India's millennia-old vast Kumbh Mela festival, the culmination of their journey is ritual ...

The world's largest religious gathering, the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India, turned deadly Wednesday, with officials ...

Dozens of people were killed in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering in India early Wednesday, as tens of ...

12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Sanitation workers walk after cleaning an area on the banks of the Ganges river, where ...

The flow of the Ganges symbolizes amrita, and celebrations take place around the river. The main event of the festival is the immersion in the Ganges, which is meant to wash away all the sins of ...

Videos from the scene showed victims being rushed to ambulances or lying motionless on the ground after a large crowd broke ...

A group of diplomats and foreign guests pose a photograph at sangam before bathing the confluence of rivers Ganges, Yamuna ...

The crush happened as pilgrims tried to jump over police barricades to reach Sangam Nose, the point where India's Ganges river meets Yamuna ... day during the six-week festival, and authorities ...

At least 30 people were killed and over 30 have been injured in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world's biggest ...