(3 Jul 2024)
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Hathras, Uttar Pradesh – 3 July 2024
1. Wide of people gathered near site of stampede
2. Policeman standing
3. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Sonu Kumar, villager who helped after stampede:
“Some were breathing, some were not. They were in a terrible condition yesterday. We poured water on some who were breathing, made them drink water, and wiped their mouths. There was no arrangement for ambulances here. An ambulance came later. We stopped tempos, cars and transported the patients to the hospital.”
4. Police tape at site of stampede, pan right to road
5. People at site of stampede
6. Woman looking towards camera standing at site of stampede
7. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Sonu Kumar, villager who helped after the stampede:
“We moved people from here. (Reporter question: How many dead bodies did you pull out?) From here we took out at least 40-50 dead bodies.”
8. Various of site of stampede
9. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Sonu Kumar, villager who helped after the stampede:
"What is this? If this is not blind devotion, then what else is it? And what baba (religious leader), he sat in the car and left. And his devotees here fell one upon another and some were in the water. Some people’s clothes, slippers and bags were here which we removed from here. A two-year-old child died. The screams were so heart-wrenching. We have never seen anything like this before here in our village.”
10. Pan right of site of stampede
11. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Santosh Kumar, villager who helped after the stampede:
“We also removed bags and slippers from here.”
12. Various of Santosh showing video he shot on his mobile showing people scattered
STORYLINE:
A villager recounted Wednesday how he and his fellow villagers rushed to help after they heard the news of a stampede which killed dozens in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
“Some were breathing, some were not. They were in a terrible condition yesterday. We poured water on those who were breathing, made them drink water, and wiped their mouths,” said Sonu Kumar.
Thousands of people at a religious gathering in India rushed to leave a makeshift tent, setting off a stampede Tuesday that killed at least 116 people and injured scores, officials said.
It was not immediately clear what triggered the panic following an event with a Hindu guru known locally as Bhole Baba. Local news reports cited authorities who said heat and suffocation in the tent could have been a factor. Video of the aftermath showed the structure appeared to have collapsed.
At least 116 people died, most of them women and children, said Prashant Kumar, the director-general of police in northern India’s state of Uttar Pradesh, where the stampede occurred.
More than 80 others were injured and admitted to hospitals, senior police officer Shalabh Mathur said.
Relatives wailed in distress as bodies of the dead, placed on stretchers and covered in white sheets, lined the grounds of a local hospital. A bus that arrived there carried more victims, whose bodies were lying on the seats inside.
Deadly stampedes are relatively common around Indian religious festivals, where large crowds gather in small areas with poor infrastructure and few safety measures.
Police officer Rajesh Singh said there was likely overcrowding at the event in a village in Hathras district about 350 kilometers (220 miles) southwest of the state capital, Lucknow.
AP video by Rajesh Kumar Singh
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