(16 Feb 2025)
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New Delhi, India – 16 February 2025
1. Man consoling a woman as they arrive at hospital
2. Wide of security outside hospital entrance
3. Sheela Devi and relatives walking towards hospital gate
4. Various of belongings and sandals
5. Mid of a child’s bag and sandals on ground
6. Wide of platform, media gathered
7. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Sheela Devi, whose daughter-in-law died in the stampede:
“We were standing on (platform) 12 and they announced that the train would arrive at (platform) 14. Then the stampede happened and in that my daughter-in-law died.”
8. Devi holding her relative and walking towards mortuary
9. Wide of police standing next to a train arriving
10. Various of passengers on platform
11. Various of policemen arriving on platform to manage crowd
12. Mid of Nikhil Kumar, shopkeeper who witnessed the stampede
13. Various of a rope tied to manage crowd
14. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Nikhil Kumar, shopkeeper who witnessed the stampede:
“There was a big crowd because of Prayagraj Kumbh. There were lot of trains here but there was so many people that they went out of control and no one could control them. And because of that there was a stampede. Many people had gathered on the bridge.”
15. Wide of people on bridge
16. Various of a sandal on roof
STORYLINE:
At least 18 people, including 14 women, were killed in a stampede at a railway station in India’s capital of New Delhi, the Press Trust of India news agency reported Sunday.
Many of the victims were Hindu pilgrims who were traveling to the Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj in northern India, according to Delhi’s caretaker chief minister, Atishi, who uses only one name.
The stampede happened late Saturday while thousands of people were gathered at the New Delhi railway station waiting to board a train.
The incident occurred after some passengers slipped and fell on others while coming down from a footbridge that connects train platforms, authorities said.
Sheela Devi, who was at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narain Hospital in New Delhi to collect her daughter-in-law’s body, said an announcement about a change of train platforms created confusion among the passengers that led to the stampede.
Nikhil Kumar, a shopkeeper who witnessed the crowd surge described how the crowd "went out of control and no one could control it."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he was “distressed by the stampede.”
“My thoughts are with all those who have lost their loved ones. I pray that the injured have a speedy recovery. The authorities are assisting all those who have been affected by this stampede,” he said on the social platform X.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that an investigation has been ordered to find what led to the stampede.
At least 30 people were killed in a stampede at the six-week festival last month after tens of millions of Hindus gathered to take a dip in sacred river waters.
AP video by Shonal Ganguly
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