{"id":69175,"date":"2025-01-29T13:28:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T04:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jan\/29\/india-crowd-crush-kumbh-mela-religious-festival-live-blog-injuries-prayagraj"},"modified":"2025-01-29T23:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:04:38","slug":"india-crowd-crushes-dozens-feared-dead-at-kumbh-mela-religious-festival-latest-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69175","title":{"rendered":"Police in India confirm at least 30 killed and 60 more people injured in crush \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s prime minister Narendra Modi confirmed there had been fatalities at the world\u2019s largest religious gathering<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/29\/india-crowd-crush-kumbh-mela-religious-festival-death-toll-injuries-prayagraj\">Dozens feared dead in India at Kumbh Mela religious festival<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday is when the sadhus (holy people), all 13 sects of them, take their holy baths in the Ganges.<\/p>\n<p>The holy bathing time is at 4am and that is around the time that the crowd crushes are thought to have started. It appears three separate crushes took place, as people surged forward, into groups of people who were sitting or lying on the ground on the banks of the river.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jan\/29\/india-crowd-crush-kumbh-mela-religious-festival-live-blog-injuries-prayagraj\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s prime minister Narendra Modi confirmed there had been fatalities at the world\u2019s largest religious gatheringDozens feared dead in India at Kumbh Mela religious festivalWednesday is when the sadhus (holy people), all 13 sects of them, take their &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,3229,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kumbh-mela","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69200,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69175\/revisions\/69200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}