Many of the victims were Hindu pilgrims who were traveling to the Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj in northern India, officials said.

Thousands of devotees flocking to a bathing festival caused a stampede that killed at least 20 people at a railway station in New Delhi on Saturday evening. Officials said 14 women and four children were killed when crowds tried to board packed carriages going to the Hindu Maha Kumbh event.

At least 15 people died and another 15 were injured in a stampede at the main railway station in India's capital New Delhi on Saturday night, the chief minister of the capital territory told reporters early on Sunday.