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Godavari Mela (Nepali: गोदावरी मेला) or Simhastha Mela is a traditional Hindu festival celebrated every 12 years in Godavari, at Lalitpur district of Nepal. The festival attracts Hindu pilgrims from all over Nepal, India and some foreign tourists.
Deaths in Hindu Temples, holy place or while going to it, because of Natural Disaster, terrorist attack etc., other than above list of Human stampedes. Location Date Killed Injured Ratangarh Mata Temple, Datia, MP [26] 1 October 2006: 56: 200+ [citation needed] 2013 Kedarnath Temple, Uttarakhand: 14 June 2013: 6,000+ 10,000+ Raghunath Temple ...
The Kumbh has seen stampedes before, in 1840, 1906, 1954 and 1986, according to The New York Times.On the same day of the last Maha Kumbh, 12 years ago, a stampede at the local train station to ...
Hindu religious leaders have called off their “royal bath” following the stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela this morning. Today is a sacred day during the six-week festival, and authorities were ...
This is a list of crowd collapses and crushes in which at least five people died. The deadliest modern crowd crush incidents have both occurred during the Hajj pilgrimage, with the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy claiming 1,426 lives and the 2015 Mina stampede claiming 2,400. [1]
Belongings of Hindu devotees were left strewn on the ground after at least seven people died in multiple stampedes at India's Kumbh Mela festival. Hundreds gathered for a ritual bath at the ...
Kumbh Mela has been a theme for many documentaries, including Kings with Straw Mats (1998) directed by Ira Cohen, Kumbh Mela: The Greatest Show on Earth (2001) directed by Graham Day, [134] Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela (2004) directed by Nick Day and produced by Maurizio Benazzo, [135] Kumbh Mela: Songs of the River (2004) by Nadeem Uddin ...
The 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela, running from 13 January to 26 February, is expected to draw around 400 million pilgrims, making it one of the largest religious gatherings in the world.