On the evening of July 2, according to CCTV News, on the afternoon of July 2, local time, a mass stampede occurred during a religious gathering held in a village called Ratibanpur in Hatteras, Uttar Pradesh, India.
More than 20,000 people attended the religious event, and the number of casualties may rise further, according to the report. The relevant video circulated on the Internet shows that the pilgrims of this religious event are crowded together, and the scene is very chaotic.
The stampede took place in a small village in the Hatteras district of Uttar Pradesh, about 200 kilometers southeast of the Indian capital, New Delhi. The cause of the stampede is still unclear and is pending the conclusion of the local investigation.
After the stampede, the crowd panicked, and many people rushed to run for their lives, resulting in a series of stampedes, and a couple in the video escaped death and hugged each other and cried.
At the time of writing, the latest reports say that more than 150 people have been injured, some of whom were rushed to hospitals in pickup trucks.
And the most distressing picture is that the bodies of those pilgrims who have been trampled to death are placed in the courtyard in a terrible sight.
In the aftermath of the stampede, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, India, Yogi Adityanath, has ordered an investigation into the incident and ordered a rescue operation. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences to the victims of the stampede in Uttar Pradesh.
There have been a number of accidents at religious activities in India, such as a train crashing into a crowd of people attending religious services in 2018, killing about 60 people; In 2013, 115 people were killed in a stampede at a religious event in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
These pilgrims who attend religious events do not observe so-called "safety measures" when they arrive at the scene, often crammed into a small space, leading to tragedy.
The severity of this stampede is probably the worst in history, poor pilgrim!