Overcrowding and stampedes of people are frequently reported at mass gatherings in India, often at religious events, where millions of devotees come together for a special event.  India's 2025 Maha ...

In 2024, a similar stampede resulted in more than 120 people dead, also at a festival in Uttar Pradesh. But these events happen elsewhere as well: In 2022, people celebrating Halloween in South Korea ...

Seoul, South Korea - November 29, 2022 29 October 2022, Seoul, South Korea The casualties occurred Saturday night in the ...

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Millions of devout Hindus thronged the northern Indian city of Prayagraj on Thursday for the Maha Kumbh festival, a day after dozens died in a stampede on the most auspicious day of the six-week ...

Dozens of people were killed in a predawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India on Wednesday, police sources and a Reuters witness said, as tens of millions gathered to take a dip in ...

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SEOUL--South Korea’s presidential candidates formally ... the flag-bearer of the ruling Democratic Party, facing off against Yoon Suk-yeol, from the conservative main opposition People Power ...

SEOUL, South Korea ... North Korea, with which the South technically remains at war. He has also said the April parliamentary election, which the main opposition Democratic Party won in ...