CRUSHED TO DEATH
PILGRIMS PERISH WILD RUSH TO GANGES TRAGEDY AT FESTIVAL By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 10.40 a.m. DELHI, Wed. Fifty-five people, mostly women, were crushed to death in the wild rush of a thousand Hindus for the honour of being the first to bathe in the Ganges at Kumbh Mela, where the famous United Provinces Festival is held every twelfth year. The Mahamakan tank at Kumbh Mela, /n the municipality of Kumbakonan, attracts thousands of pilgrims who bathe together, believing that the holy waters of the Ganges appear in the tank every 12 years.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19270414.2.3
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 20, 14 April 1927, Page 1
Word Count
95CRUSHED TO DEATH Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 20, 14 April 1927, Page 1
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in