The grieving family is frightening the Delhi station crush

On Sunday morning, the New Delhi railway station in the capital of India looks like it always does; The stir, eager with many of your platforms, are waiting for the impatient passengers to catch their vehicles.

But on Saturday night, a deadly crush – due to alleged congestion – At least 18 people were killed and many were injured,

According to officials, two trains were delayed at the station, while one -third – was moving towards the Sweragraj City, where a large -scale Hindu religious festival, Kumbh Mela, is being organized – pushing people against each other Waiting to leave for.

A spokesman for the Indian Railways said that “a passenger slipped and fell on the stairs”.

Opposition leaders have criticized the government, alleging that the Indian Railways did not make adequate arrangements to manage the crowd at the station.

An investigation has been initiated, and authorities have announced compensation for the victims.

When asked by the BBC about security and security at the station, Northern Railway Chief Chief Security Commissioner Pankaj Gangwar said, “The investigation should be completed first”.

Such crushs are not unheard of in India, where religious events, festivals and public places are constantly crowded. Last month, 30 people killed and dozens were injured in crush at Kumbh Mela,

The crowd at the railway station was also not unexpected – trains are the cheapest long distance modes of transport in India and it exceeds the capacity of trains for the number of passengers.

Eyewitnesses and families of the victims are remembering their ordinance. Many of them were angry at officers and police officers at the railway station, who say that they did not work on time.

Some eyewitnesses stated that the crush was not limited to a place, but overhead bridges, stairs and platforms.

Bipin Jha was at the station to meet his wife Mamta, who was coming in a train. She died in a crush.

He says, “I met her on stage and when she was trapped in a crush, we were walking on the footbridge overhead. He died in front of my eyes. I will live my life with the crime of saving her.”

“We were on the stairs, suddenly we got a push from behind. We fell with many other people, and got stuck under the bodies. I was breathe barely,” Seema said, whose sister -in -law’s sister -in -law’s sister -in -law’s sister -in -law’s goddess She died on the ladder.

Usha Devi, who was traveling to the eastern state of Bihar for her nephew’s wedding, said that anarchy hit that moment on stage.

“Many people fell. Everywhere, there were scattered goods, foods and clothes. I was on the verge of unconsciousness. So many people were collapsing. The crowd was so dense that we could not ride in our train. “

Umesh Giri’s wife Shilam Devi was one of the victims.

“The crowd became uncontrollable,” he told BBC Hindi while waiting outside Morchari at Maulana Azad Medical College in Delhi.

“I noticed that many bodies were already lying there. People were colliding with each other, and others started falling on them,” Mr. Giri said, who was also injured.

He helped help with the authorities to help for help.

Senior police and railway officials at the scene did not respond to the BBC request for comment.

Most of the victims were taken to the folk hero Jai Prakash Hospital in New Delhi, where police and paramilitary forces were deployed, and railway authorities established a help desk to assist the families. Journalists were not allowed to enter the hospital on Saturday.

Relatives of the victims shared their grief with reporters waiting outside, expressing anger over the facilities in the hospital.

Shilam Devi’s sister -in -law Shoba alleged, “Many people were placed on the same bed.”

Others who came out of the hospital also confirmed this. Hospital officials did not respond to the BBC request for comment.

At Lady Harding Hospital, 7 -year -old Riya’s grieving family completed the paperwork so that they could get her body.

“No child is entitled to die like this”, his uncle Vivek said while wiping tears.