A woman grieving over the bodies of her parents who died in a stampede near the Kotagummam pushkar ghat on the first day of Maha Pushkaram at Rajahmundry on Tuesday. Photo: K.R. Deepak
Devotees climb VIP car roofs to escape stampede near Kotagummam pushkar ghat as a sea of humanity barged in suddenly into the ghat to take a dip in river Godavari on the first day of Maha Pushkaram at Rajahmundry on Tuesday. Photo: K.R. Deepak
Devotees caught in a stampede near Kotagummam pushkar ghat as a sea of humanity barged in to take a dip in river Godavari on the first day of Maha Pushkaram at Rajahmundry on Tuesday. Photo: K.R. Deepak
A sea of humanity thronged near Kotagummam pushkar ghat to take a dip in river Godavari on the first day of Maha Pushkaram at Rajahmundry on Tuesday. Photo: K.R. Deepak
Devotees caught in a stampede near Kotagummam pushkar ghat as a sea of humanity surged into the ghat to take a dip in river Godavari on the first day of Maha Pushkaram at Rajahmundry on Tuesday. Photo: K.R. Deepak
Children take shelter on VIP car roofs to escape stampede near Kotagummam pushkar ghat as a sea of humanity surged into the ghat to take a dip in river Godavari on the first day of Maha Pushkaram at Rajahmundry on Tuesday. Photo: K.R. Deepak
Devotees caught in a stampede near Kotagummam pushkar ghat as a sea of humanity thronged to take a dip in river Godavari on the first day of Maha Pushkaram at Rajahmundry on Tuesday. Photo: K.R. Deepak
A child being rescued as devotees were caught in a stampede near Kotagummam pushkar ghat as a sea of humanity thronged to take a dip in river Godavari on the first day of Maha Pushkaram at Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. Photo: K.R. Deepak
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu visiting hospital where bodies of the stampede victims were kept in Rajahmundry on Tuesday. Photo: S. Rambabu
Pilgrims from different parts of the state, getting down from very sloppy revetment of Gammon India's Fourth Bridge at Kovvur side on Tuesday though the East and West Godavari administrations have shown them parking places about 5 km away from their Ghats, as free buses are not sufficient. Photo: BVS Bhaskar
A victim of stampede being taken out on a stretcher at the Pushkara Ghat in Rajahmundry on Tuesday. Photo: S. Rambabu
Pilgrims converge in large numbers at Pushkara ghat in Rajahmundry on Tuesday. Photo: S. Rambabu
Pilgrims seen surging into Pushkara ghat. in Rajahmundry on Tuesday. Photo: S. Rambabu