Hindu festival draws crowds of bathers to rivers

Rows and rows of colourful tents, in which the devotees stay, line the sprawling festival site.

A Hindu Holy man prays as others shower flower petals on him (Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP)

Millions of people have joined a 45-day Hindu bathing festival in India.

Devotees at the festival, in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj, take a dip at Sangam, the sacred confluence of several rivers.