At least 10 personas They died And another 19 were injured Last night in northern India, near the city of Prayagraj, where the Kumbh Mela Hindu festival has been held since January 13, after collide a vehicle that was going to the pilgrimage and a bus. The bodies of the deceased were transferred to a nearby hospital in Prayagraj, as confirmed to the ANI agency the Yamunanagar police chief, Vivek Chandra Yadav.
The accident occurred at midnight from Friday to Saturday on the road that connects Prayagraj and Mirzapur, both in the state of Uttar Pradesh, Ani reported. Traffic accidents in India are frequent because of the poor state of the roads, the precarious conditions of some vehicles and the low attention to the circulation rules of some drivers.
In the last days the organizers of the Kumbh Mela prohibited vehicle traffic in the festival areaafter thousands of people were trapped in multiple traffic jams even more than 200 kilometers from Prayagrajwith some drivers reporting that they needed until 12 hours to travel a 50 -kilometer stretch. The withholdings were especially large in the surroundings of Prayagraj, where according to data from the Google Maps platform, there were 15 -kilometer traffic jams that delayed the arrival of faithful more than two and a half. The train tickets are exhausted before the start of the festival, while the cost of the plane tickets has multiplied, causing millions of people to opt for the journey by car.
The Kumbh Mela festival, which is celebrated at the confluence of the Sagges and Yamuna sacred rivers, as well as the Sarasvati mythological, until February 26, it has already brought together more than 500 million devotees that have bathed in the waters, following the Hindu tradition. This year’s edition of the Festival, which is celebrated every twelve years in Prayagraj, was marked by the death of 30 people in a stampede which took place on January 29, during the most auspicious day for the immersion and the most massive of Kumbh Mela.
