REPORT: Stampede Kills 22 People In A Train Station



Stampede at a train station kills 22 people in India
A Stampede has taken the lives of 22 people in a railway stations in Mumbai during the morning rush while another 27 were injured.

When falling concrete hit the bridge railing, people in the crowd thought the bridge would collapse and surged to escape, Mumbai police official Gansham Patel said.
Stampede at a train station kills 22 people in India
Lawmaker Shaina Nana Chudasama of the governing Bhartiya Janata Party said people had been crowding under the canopy covering the bridge to escape heavy rains, making the deadly tragedy worse.

The pedestrian bridge connected two local Mumbai railway stations — Elphinstone and Parel.Deadly stampedes are fairly common during Indian religious festivals, where large crowds gather in small areas with few safety or crowd control measures.

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