Media personnel stand outside a hospital where victims are brought following a stampede in New Delhi on February 16, 2025. At least 15 people died during a stampede at a railway station in India's capital late on February 15 when surging crowds scrambled to catch trains to the world's largest religious gathering, a medical official told AFP. - Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP
NEW DELHI (AFP): At least 15 people died during a stampede at a railway station in India's capital late Saturday when surging crowds scrambled to catch trains to the world's largest religious gathering, a medical official told AFP.
The Kumbh Mela attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful every 12 years to the northern city of Prayagraj, and has a history of crowd-related disasters -- including one last month, when at least 30 people died in another stampede at the holy confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers.
