Dozens injured on the stamp at the Mach KumbB Massive Festival in India

New -Deli (AP) – Stamp, wounded by dozens of people in the beginning of Wednesday, when tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river Massive Mach Kumba Festival in North IndiaLocal media report.

Images from the scene in the northern city of Gadagrage were shown by rescuers who help the wounded when the police tried to control the mass crowd.

It was not immediately clear what caused the panic at the festival, where they were greeted from all over India to swim at the merger of Ganges, Yamun and the mythical rivers of Sarasvat. India’s press was quoted by the authorities that stated that the wounded people had been sent to the hospital.

Mach Kumba Festival, held every 12 years, began on January 13 and is the world’s largest religious gathering. Authorities expect more than 400 million people in general in general threatening pilgrimage.

To accommodate tens of thousands of holy people, pilgrims and tourists who attend the festival, the authorities built a scattered tent city on the river. It is equipped with 3000 kitchens and 150,000 toilets, as well as roads, electricity and water, communication towers and 11 hospitals.

A woman wounded in the stamp helps an ambulance of Sangam’s shores, a merger of Ganges, Yamun and mythical Sarasate rivers, on Mauna Amavasa or Young Day Day during Makh Kumba Festival, Monkrasadzhi, Uttar, Utar Prade, India, Wednesday, January 29 R. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Photo: Associated Press/Rajesh Kumar Singh

About 50,000 security staff are placed in the city to support law and order crowds. Stamps relatively common Around Indian religious festivals, where large crowds gather in small areas.