Mahakumbh Stampede: In Mahakumbh, 30 deaths occurred in a stampede just before the second royal bath on Mauni Amavasya (29 January). The pictures of this stampede at Sangam Ghat were heartbreaking. Somewhere in the pictures, people looked at themselves in a pile of clothes, blankets, bags and jutes were seen and more than a dozen corpses lying on the floor in the hospital were seen. The crying of family members and giving CPR to their loved ones also kept distracting. This incident has so far questioned the arrangements in the ongoing Mahakumbh in a peaceful and successful manner. The questions began to stand further when gradually the statements of eyewitnesses, videos of the accident and ground reports of reporters present on the spot were revealed.
In this entire accident till yesterday i.e. till Wednesday, it was being said that people did not listen to the administration and broke the barricade and reached Sangam and crushed the people lying there. The mistake was also being told of those who were resting at the Sangam Ghat. However, now that more and more information has been gathered, the administration is coming in the dock.
Already 7 to 8 crore people were expected to come on Mauni Amavasya and so many people came. Bathing on Mauni Amavasya is considered to be the most important in any Mahakumbh and then this time there was a coincidence of Purna Mahakumbh after 144 years. It is believed that taking a bath in the confluence on Mauni Amavasya gives salvation. That is why a large number of devotees on this day Mahakumbh Also reached and instead of bathing at the rest of the ghats of Ganga and Yamuna, they gathered for bathing at Sangam Ghat itself.
Administration closed the pantoon bridge
The administration has requested people many times to take a bath at the nearby ghats, but people had to take a bath in the confluence according to the beliefs. That is why people went on moving towards Sangam Nose. In such a situation, the administration closed several routes to reduce the crowd at the confluence. That is, many pantoon bridges and roads which were going towards Sangam were closed. People have left a few ways to go to the confluence. They were also a way to go around, on which everyone was sure to get tired on going to the confluence. In such a situation, the crowd increased on these paths. Even the people already present at the confluence did not find ways to get out of there. In such a situation, a crowd gathered close to Sangam Ghat. According to eyewitnesses, 10 lakh people gathered in an area of 500 meters.
People continued to grow in flood but the roads did not open
Crowds at the confluence, public floods on the paths coming and there and in the meantime many people were also resting just before Sangam Ghat. These were the people who had reached the confluence by covering long distances due to the closure of the road and were taking some rest, so that the Brahma Muhurta would take a bath at the confluence and leave the house. At the same time, the number of those who came back after bathing at the confluence was increasing, but the administration did not open the roads. Due to this, people gathered to collect.
‘There was no one to pay attention to the crowd’
Eyewitnesses say that the administration had closed all the way and there was such a crowd that there was so much crowd that nothing was understood. People were not even getting a place to get out. Some people also say that when the crowd increased at the confluence and the roads were mostly closed, the administrative officials were scaring people instead of opening the road that the royal bath is about to begin. Now even if people move in the crowd, where did it go?
When did the situation deteriorate?
People present at the site of the incident say that when the paths leading to the Sangam started getting crowded and people started suffocating, people started breaking barricades and started coming out. Due to the breakdown of barricade, the entire crowd fell on the people who were resting near these barricades. The police also could not handle the crowd. This is the reason that 30 people lost their lives in the Sangam and a large number of people were injured and also joined.
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