Yesterday a very bad event took place resulting in the demise of 35 people. A stampede at Allahabad railway station took place resulting in the death of so many people. India is a religious nation and bath in Kumbh Mela is one of the biggest religious ambition that a spiritual hindu could have and to fulfill their wishes on Sunday over 3cr people arrived for the snan which caused the mayhem. The turmoil shook the whole nation. On the railway station many were detached from their fathers, spouses, mothers etc. causing huge grief and misery to the people.
Lets look at what happened.
Over 3cr people arrived for Sunday's snan which exceeded all the expected limits. To clear rush administration set up ticket counters in the mela to clear rush at railway station. Traffic curbs forced man people to exit on foot after first snan. Only exit road due to huge amount of people was in toto choked. The station(7km away) can handle average 15,000. But on sunday it got around 50 lakh people. The railway station got completely filled and nearly 6000 people were trapped on Foot Over Bridge (FOB) where the tragedy occurred. Suddenly an announcement came at 05:50pm that the train expected on Platform 04 is going to arrive on platform 06. People tried to rush to platform no.06 and pandemonium occurred resulting in people falling downstairs which caused suffocation and many other problems and many people were injured. And the worst thing is many people lie dead and wounded on platform 4. No help came till 9pm which exacerbated the situation and now hapless pilgrims thrown out of mela area have to sit out on allahabad streets.
Such a carelessness is not expected from the government and the worst thing is no help came till 9pm. Is not that absurd? Such things are intolerable.
Lets look at what happened.
Over 3cr people arrived for Sunday's snan which exceeded all the expected limits. To clear rush administration set up ticket counters in the mela to clear rush at railway station. Traffic curbs forced man people to exit on foot after first snan. Only exit road due to huge amount of people was in toto choked. The station(7km away) can handle average 15,000. But on sunday it got around 50 lakh people. The railway station got completely filled and nearly 6000 people were trapped on Foot Over Bridge (FOB) where the tragedy occurred. Suddenly an announcement came at 05:50pm that the train expected on Platform 04 is going to arrive on platform 06. People tried to rush to platform no.06 and pandemonium occurred resulting in people falling downstairs which caused suffocation and many other problems and many people were injured. And the worst thing is many people lie dead and wounded on platform 4. No help came till 9pm which exacerbated the situation and now hapless pilgrims thrown out of mela area have to sit out on allahabad streets.
Such a carelessness is not expected from the government and the worst thing is no help came till 9pm. Is not that absurd? Such things are intolerable.
Jai Hind, Jai Bharat
Jai Ma Bharti
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