It’s been dubbed “the world’s bloodiest” festival because of the sheer number of animals slaughtered and offered as sacrifice. The Gadhimai festival, a quinquennial religious observance ...

Held every five years in Bariyarpur village in the Bara district of Nepal, the Gadhimai festival is estimated to see as many as 500,000 animals killed by the time it ends. The killing began in the ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Thousands of creatures were set to be killed over the two day Gadhimai Festival in Nepal ...

The killing of the buffaloes is intended as a sacrifi ce to Gadhimai, a Hindu goddess of power. It is part of the month-long Gadhimai Festival, held every fifth year in November in the town of ...