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Thousands of pilgrims were crushed under a moonless winter sky in the wee hours of Wednesday at Prayagraj. Prayagraj is unique among the four Kumbh venues because a massive tent city the size of 7,500 football fields has to come up on the sandy confluence of the Ganga and the Yamuna every time it’s held. It’s no surprise that the modern era’s worst stampede happened at Prayagraj in 1954; its official toll is contested by some local elders even today. In the following editions, experienced bureaucrats put together a crowd control plan, which the top IPS and IAS officers picked to run the fair are supposed to revisit. While it used to be collated from police reports from the entry points to Prayagraj, the task is made easier today with mass location data from mobile phones.

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