Children among 15 killed in CRUSH at the New Delhi Railway Station in India | News of transportation
Indian officials said that the accident happened in the middle of a slope of passengers waiting for trains to attend the great Hindu religious festival.
Ten women and three children were among at least 15 people killed in a crowd at the Railway Station in the New Delhi capital, while thousands of Hindu pilgrims waited to board the trains to attend the annual place Mahakumbh mela religious festival.
The incident took place on Saturday night at about 8pm, local time (14:30 GMT) on two platforms at the New Delhi train station, while huge crowds were waiting to board the trains in Molagrad City, where the festival is held, about 624 KM (387 miles) southeast of the capital.
Delhi’s Chief Minister Atishi, who uses only one name, told reporters that 15 people died, while the local news output NDTV reported that the number of deaths was 18 people.
Indian Minister of Railway Ashwini Vaishnaw said four trains were arranged to “evacuate” a sudden and unprecedented passenger rush at the station, and the investigation was ordered to find out what went wrong.
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Video shots shared by local newspaper organizations on social media showed people trying to force themselves as they were forced to force packed carriages.
“People ran across the platform and there was a chaotic situation that led to people to fall on each other,” said the man who witnessed the event told the Indian news agency Ana.
The Times of India said witnesses reported on a “crowd” that caused a delay of two trains, which led to an unexpectedly large number of passengers waiting for platforms. When people rushed to board the train that was coming, “the situation was going out of control, and some passengers did not have a stranger in the midst of a sudden rush,” the media output reported.
“This caused rumors about Stamped, which led to further panic,” it was said.
Mahakumbh The only biggest turning point on the Hindu religious calendar, and officials said that about 500 million devotees had already visited the festival since it started in January.
The crowd regularly collapses on the main Indian religious festivals.
At least 30 people were killed At the Mahakumbh’s joint last month when tens of millions of Hindus bathed to bathe in holy river waters. The central part of the six -week festival is a ritual swim at the place where Ganges and Yamuna are merged with the mythical river Saraswati.
At least 36 people were also demolished until his death in 2013, the last time the festival was held in Moyagraj, and more than 400 died after they were drowning or drowned on one day of the festival on one day of the 1954 festival.
The Indian rail system, which is the fourth largest train network in the world, has also testified to serious accidents in the last two years, including a collision 2023, which killed at least 288 people.
