The fire was reported in Sector-22 of the Maha Kumbh district near Chatnag Ghat. The devotees are reported safe and evacuated from the site of the fire.

My mother fell and died on the spot. My father then removed her body sometime later and kept it on the side. Once the crowd thinned, it was shifted to an ambulance. After postmortem, it was sent off at 6 pm on Wednesday and arrived in the village around 11 am today,

Fears dozens of worshippers are dead following the crowd crush in Prayagraj city, where millions gathered to attend the bathing day

Grieving families in India are cremating their loved ones while others are caring for their injured relatives in hospitals a day after a stampede.

Moments before a deadly stampede at the world's biggest religious gathering in India, Hindu devotees queuing to take a spiritual bath in a river said they pleaded with police to open barricaded routes to thin out a surging crowd.

A senior police officer said at least 30 people died as a crowd panicked at the Hindu Kumbh Mela mega-festival in the northern city of Prayagraj.

A tragic stampede at the Maha Kumbh festival in northern India has left several people dead and many others injured.

GRAPHIC CONTENTIndia has ordered a probe into the stampede that killed dozens at the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.The stampede happened Wednesday, as millions gathered for a "holy dip" in sacred river waters,