LIVE – Updated at 13:26. The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered a judicial probe into the deaths of at least 30 people in stampedes at India’s Kumbh Mela festival, where millions of Hindu ...

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Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered a judicial probe into the stampede incident at the Maha Kumbh Mela, which killed at least 30 people, according to government estimates.