MAHAKUMBH NAGAR, Jan. 30 -- A sub-inspector deployed in the Sangam Nose area, where a stampede occurred in the early hours of Wednesday, died later in the evening.

According to Jhunsi station house officer Pankaj Rai, sub-inspector Anjani Kumar Rai, 48, posted in Bahraich was deployed at the Sangam Nose area on Wednesday morning. After the stampede, he felt uneasy and went to the nearby Mela hospital to seek medication. Follow Maha Kumbh Live Updates

After taking the prescribed medicine by a doctor at the hospital, he felt better and went back to resume his duties, said the SHO. However, after some time the S-I collapsed frothing at the mouth.

Seeing the same, his nephew who had come with him from Bahraich took him to the Mela hospital...