A bridge kereta-api station is overloaded and one curved Haft fence collapsed, making a number of people slipping and ignite the chaos of rush, said a high official of the regional government told Reuters.
"I can confirm that 17 people were killed and 13 injured," said the officials were not willing to be named.
Once every 12 years, tens of millions of people flock to small-town India Northern region, Allahabad, to Maha Kumbh Mela, or Pitcher Festival, at a point where the River Ganges and Yamuna rivers met with a mythical third River.
Within two months from the start of the festival was in January, officials estimate that 100 million people had passed through a city while covering a larger area than that of Athens in a wide, Sandy riverbank.
Hindus bathing in the sacred River Ganges to wash away the sins of their past. Sunday is believed to be the most auspicious day for the festival.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed a sense of shock over the tragedy and promised financial aid to the families of the victims who were killed.
On November 19, 2012, at least 14 people were killed and many others injured in the Stampede chaos caused by the collapse of a bridge during the Hindu festival in the city of Patna, India.
The victims, many of them women and children, came to the banks of the Ganges in Bihar to follow the biggest Hindu festival Chhath, in the State in eastern India.
A police officer told reporters, chaos ensued as a result of the collapse of a rushed the bridges made of bamboo at the edge of the River, and he was asking the community at ease.
Hindus gathered in the River to pray for the sun goes down. (M014)
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