Sobs, groans & hopelessness — frantic scenes play out at hospital after Hathras stampede

Hathras: On Tuesday, at least 125 people were killed in a stampede at a satsang (religious congregation) in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. According to the FIR, permission was granted for 80,000 people to attended the event hosted by self-styled preacher Narayan Sakar Hari, but crowd exceeded 2.50 lakh, with no adequate arrangements by organisers. Hari, however, not named in FIR.

Local hospitals are crowded with the victims, both living and dead, from the stampede. The Bagla Combined District Hospital, Hathras has 32 bodies and around 6 injured were being treated. The rest were taken to different hospitals. Most of the victims are women. Relatives of victims continue to search for their kin at different hospitals.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath have expressed their condolences. CM Yogi has said that a probe would be conducted to examine the cause of the stampede.

ThePrint’s Manisha Mondal captures the scenes from the Bagla Combined District Hospital:

Grieving victims at the hospital in Hathras | Manisha Mondal | ThePrint

Bodies of the victims laid on ice slabs at the hospital | Manisha Mondal | ThePrint

ID card of a stampede victim | Manisha Mondal | ThePrint

Bodies kept in a row on the floor | Manisha Mondal | ThePrint

Some of the bodies are yet to be claimed by families | Manisha Mondal | ThePrint

The body of a stampede victim is brought to the hospital in Hathras | Manisha Mondal | ThePrint

Frantic scenes outside the Bagla Combined District Hospital | Manisha Mondal | ThePrint

Most of the Hathras stampede victims are women | Manisha Mondal | ThePrint

Corridor of the Bagla Combined DIstrict Hospital, Hathras | Manisha Mondal | ThePrint

A stampede victim’s body is brought at the hospital | Manisha Mondal | ThePrint

An injured woman recuperates at the hospital | Manisha Mondal | ThePrint