“We came in a batch of 60 people in two buses. We were nine people in the group. Suddenly there was pushing in the crowd, and we got trapped. A lot of us fell and the crowd went uncontrolled,” Sarojini from Karnataka said, weeping outside the hospital in Prayagraj.
“There was no chance for escape, there was pushing from all sides,” the woman told PTI Videos, as she narrated the stampede-like situation that broke on Wednesday morning at the Sangam.
As crores of people arrived at the Maha Kumbh to take a holy dip (Amrit Snan) on ‘Mauni Amavasya, a stampede-like situation broke out in the early hours of Wednesday.
