Passengers jostle with every different to board a teach on the New Delhi Railway station, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Feb.15, 2025.
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NEW DELHI — A minimum of 18 other folks, together with 14 girls, have been killed in a stampede at a railway station in India’s capital of New Delhi, the Press Believe of India information company reported Sunday. Most of the sufferers have been Hindu pilgrims who have been touring to the Maha Kumbh competition in Prayagraj in northern India, in step with Delhi’s caretaker leader minister, Atishi, who makes use of just one title. The stampede took place past due Saturday whilst 1000’s of other folks have been accrued on the New Delhi railway station ready to board a teach. The incident passed off after some passengers slipped and fell on others whilst coming down from a footbridge that connects teach platforms, government mentioned.
Sheela Devi, who was once at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narain Health facility in New Delhi to gather her daughter-in-law’s frame, mentioned a press release a few trade of teach platforms created confusion some of the passengers that resulted in the stampede. “The gang went out of regulate and nobody may just regulate it,” mentioned Nikhil Kumar, a shopkeeper who witnessed the group surge. Top Minister Narendra Modi mentioned that he was once “distressed by way of the stampede.” “My ideas are with all those that have misplaced their family members. I pray that the injured have a fast restoration. The government are helping all those that were suffering from this stampede,” he mentioned at the social platform X. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw mentioned that an investigation has been ordered to seek out what resulted in the stampede. A minimum of 30 other folks have been killed in a stampede on the six-week competition closing month after tens of hundreds of thousands of Hindus accrued to take a dip in sacred river waters.
