(3 Jul 2024)
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++EDIT CONTAINS FOOTAGE OF DEAD BODIES++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh – 3 July 2024
1. Pan from people gathered to police outside mortuary
2. Police outside mortuary
3. Coffins kept outside mortuary, police
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hathras, Uttar Pradesh – 2 July 2024
4. Person carrying a child’s body
5. Man carrying a woman’s body
6. Man carrying a child’s body
++ NIGHTS SHOTS ++
7. Police outside hospital
8. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Urmila Devi, attended the religious gathering:
“My granddaughter is missing. (Reporter asks what happened) I don’t know. There was stampede in the pandal (where the religious gathering was).”
9. Man crying looking for relative
++ DAY SHOTS ++
10. People gathered on road, banner of religious gathering
STORYLINE:
Relatives faced an anxious wait for news of their loved ones on Wednesday after a deadly stampede in Uttar Pradesh.
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.
Initial reports said organizers had permission to host about 5,000 people, but more than 15,000 came for the event by the Hindu preacher, who used to be a police officer in the state before he left his job to give religious sermons. He has led other such gatherings over the last two decades.
AP video by Manoj Aligadi
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