Hathras : At least people, , including women and children, were killed in a stampede at a religious congregation in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district on Tuesday, officials said.
According to Hathras SSP office, the religious event was underway in Mughalgarhi village of the Hathras district when the stampede took place.
Visuals from the Community Health Centre showed several bodies being brought there in the presence of crying relatives.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered a probe into the incident. ADG Agra and Commissioner Aligarh will be members of the probe committee.
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In an update based on reports from the hospital, a district official later said 50 to 60 people were believed killed.
Victims, dead or unconscious, were brought to the Sikandara Rao Trauma Centre in trucks and other vehicles. The bodies were laid outside the health centre as people milled around them.
One video clip showed a woman crying, sitting among five or six bodies in a truck. Another picture showed a man and a woman lying lifeless in another vehicle.
Eyewitness Shakuntala Devi told PTI Videos that the stampede took place while people were leaving the venue at the end of the ‘satsang’. They fell atop each other, she said. ( With Agencies Inputs )