Witnesses describe people being trampled amid surging crowds on the banks of the Ganges during Hindu festival
Thirty people have been killed and scores injured in multiple crowd crushes at the Kumbh Mela festival, Indian police have announced, as vast numbers of people went to bathe at one of the holiest sites of the Hindu gathering.
Tens of millions of people flocked to the northern state of Uttar Pradesh to immerse themselves at the sacred confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers on one of the most auspicious days of the Hindu festival.
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