At the least 15 individuals have been killed and 10 injured in a crush at New Delhi Railway Station, in line with Indian media.
Eyewitnesses instructed BBC Hindi a “enormous crowd” had gathered on the station, from the place many individuals had been travelling to and from the Hindu non secular pageant, the Kumbh Mela.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned his ideas had been “with all those that have misplaced their family members” in a publish on X.
Authorities mentioned the state of affairs is now beneath management.
Dr Ritu Saxena, deputy medical superintendent of Lok Nayak Hospital in New Delhi, instructed information company AFP she might verify 15 deaths at her hospital.
Reuters information company reported that three of the lifeless had been kids, whereas 10 had been ladies.
An eyewitness, Ruby Devi, instructed BBC Hindi the group was so huge she could not go contained in the station, including there was a “stampede-like state of affairs”.
One other individual mentioned the policemen had been doing their job “however the crowd turned an excessive amount of”.
Indian railways had initially dismissed discuss of a stampede as a “hearsay”, in line with Reuters, however confirmed that an undisclosed variety of individuals had been injured and brought to hospital.
The crush comes weeks after dozens had been killed in a pre-dawn crush on the Kumbh Mela pageant in northern India, the place tens of tens of millions of Hindus had gathered to take a dip in sacred river waters on essentially the most auspicious day of a six-week pageant.
