More than a dozen people were killed and many more injured in a crush at a huge religious festival in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state on Wednesday. India’s Kumbh Mela is a Hindu festival held by the banks of the Ganges river. The stampede appears to have happened when people who were sleeping on the river bank were trampled on by other worshippers who were trying to bathe in the holy waters.
Worshippers killed in India stampede at world’s largest religious festival
Thieves steal Renaissance masterworks from MuMe museum during Ferragosto holiday
News Desk
Thieves have stolen four Renaissance artworks valued at up to 80 million euros from the MuMe Regional Interdisciplinary Museum in Messina, Italy, during the Ferragosto