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Hathras stampede: In a tragic incident, as many as 116 people, mostly women, were killed in a massive stampede at a religious congregation in a village of Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday afternoon.
According to the police, 116 people, mostly women, were killed in the stampede as devotees suffocated to their deaths and bodies piled atop each other in one of the worst such tragedies in recent years.
The stampede took place as the ‘satsang’ ended in Hathras with some accounts saying people slipped in the slush as they ran after the preacher’s car, triggering the stampede.
Tens of thousands of devotees had gathered in the Hathras district’s Phulrai village for the ‘satsang’, conducted by Baba Narayan Hari who is also known as Saakar Vishwa Hari Bhole Baba.
Twenty-seven bodies were brought to a hospital in neighbouring Etah district, at 89 lay dead in Hathras itself.
UP chief secretary Manoj Kumar Singh put the death toll at 116. Barring seven children and a man, the dead are all women. Singh said 72 have been identified so far.
Victims, dead or unconscious, were brought to the Sikandara Rau Trauma Centre in trucks and ‘tempos’. The bodies lay scattered outside the Hathras health centre as people milled around them.
A senior officer said the stampede was apparently triggered due to overcrowding as a large number of people had gathered there to attend the ‘satsang’ event.
Visuals shared on social media showed tragic scenes of dozens of people, mostly women, lying motionless on the ground and some being loaded onto the back of pickup trucks and taken to hospitals.
UP के हाथरस के रतिभानपुर में सत्संग के समापन के दौरान भगदड़ मचने के बाद लगभग 2 दर्जन लोगों की मौत, दर्जनों लोग घायल.
सूचना पर पहुंची पुलिस व प्रशासन ने सैकड़ों गंभीर अवस्था में अस्पताल में कराया भर्ती, सिकंदराराऊ कोतवाली क्षेत्र के गांव फुलराई की घटना.#Hathras pic.twitter.com/3QzZ1cjVjn — Shivam Pratap Singh (@journalistspsc) July 2, 2024
Officials said a probe has been ordered into the incident and a team comprising the Agra additional director general of police and the divisional commissioner of Aligarh will lead the investigation.
हाथरस में भगदड़ के बाद जो तस्वीरें आ रही वह भयानक हैं।
स्थानीय रिपोर्टर 60 से ज्यादा मौत की बात कह रहे हैं। #Hathras pic.twitter.com/q3pYX7LRkm — Rajesh Sahu (@askrajeshsahu) July 2, 2024
One video clip showed a woman crying as she sat in a truck, amid five or six bodies. Another showed a man and a woman lifeless in another vehicle.
Clips before the stampede showed people in a large ‘shamiana’, listening to Bhole Baba. The ‘baba’ sat before them on a throne-like chair.
The preacher was a policeman in the 1990s when he left the force, and started holding satsangs, according to one account. Politicians are said to be among his followers.
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed condolences to the families of those killed in the stampede and instructed officials to reach the accident site to carry out relief measures.
Adityanath also directed the district administration to arrange for proper treatment of those injured and immediately take them to hospitals. He wished them a speedy recovery.
(With PTI inputs)
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