Common occurrence.
>>>>Drone footage showed millions of devotees, shoulder to shoulder, arriving in the pre-dawn dark for the holy dip to mark the most auspicious day of the festival.<<<<
Millions of people taking a bath in the same river at the same time?!
UGH.
Based on the photos on X I think the death toll is going to be much higher.
Some people from our church did a mission trip to India ten years ago. The pictures/videos they took were almost beyond belief. Absolute filth everywhere they went. One picture I’ll never forget - a group of Indian men sitting in a huge vat of cow excrement because they believed it had medicinal and spiritual powers.
They will never learn.
If only we’d have issued more H1B visas, the crowd would have not been so large...