00:00Raining.
00:07Call up a neighbour, otherwise it'll rain heavily.
00:10I went out of home a few days ago.
00:12Why didn't you come back?
00:14I told them to call me.
00:17That it'll be raining all the time.
00:19And that my mother will be out of reach.
00:22I'm not sure where she is.
00:24I just don't know where she is.
00:25This is Rakhi Bose, Assistant Editor with Outlook and right now I am in Hathras in the village
00:36of Phulrai, Mughalgarhi, where yesterday about 121 people officially have lost their lives
00:42and of them about 114 of them are women and 7 are children and there is one man who is
00:47deceased.
00:48This is the location where it happened, there was a stampede during the satsang, it is being
00:52said that the stampede happened during the satsang of Baba Bholenath who is a religious
00:57godman here, locally known, locally revered.
00:59We visited the families of the deceased, one of them is Vinod who lost his mother, his
01:06wife as well as his 9-year-old daughter in the stampede yesterday.
01:10My name is Vinod, my mother used to come to the satsang, she was with us for 5-7 years.
01:20She wanted to join us as well but we did not allow her to join us.
01:25Sometimes she used to tell my wife and sometimes she used to leave.
01:29She has gone once or twice.
01:31My mother has gone, my wife, my daughter, 9-10 years old, my daughter-in-law, my daughter-in-law.
01:44Two days ago I went out of the house, I told her to call me, I told her to talk to me.
01:56I told her that your mother has passed away, I told her that I don't know where she is.
02:03I got her photo, I told her that I am coming.
02:11I told her about my princess and I told her that I have gone with Lalli.
02:18I told her that I don't know where she is.
02:23I woke up at 6 in the morning, I came here at 11.30 or 12.
02:30I didn't find my mother, I got the news about her but I didn't find her.
02:35I went to the hospital but I didn't find her.
02:42I went to Lalli, Ligand, I went to find my brother.
02:46I ran all night.
02:50I found my mother in Agra.
02:57I ran all night.
02:59I am broken.
03:08My name is Dev Singh.
03:10The girl who passed away, her husband's name is Lala Ram.
03:14And your daughter's?
03:15Kamlesh.
03:18What happened?
03:19She passed away in the middle of the road.
03:23I don't know how she passed away.
03:26Who was with her?
03:28Her husband.
03:30And two people from the village.
03:32The girl?
03:34How old was the girl?
03:36The girl was around 7 months old.
03:38The one who passed away.
03:40There is a lot of carelessness.
03:42If there is a lack of police, then what?
03:44If there is a lack of police, then what?
03:46There is carelessness.
03:48If there was no carelessness,
03:50then why would these roads be built?
04:10There were children with me.
04:12I was overwhelmed.
04:14The children were overwhelmed.
04:16There was a crowd here from a distance.
04:18Guruji had come.
04:20There was a crowd with him.
04:22Whatever people came, they came with him.
04:24There was so much crowd here
04:26in the middle of the road.
04:28I couldn't walk.
04:30My feet kept shaking.
04:32Those who fell, couldn't get up.
04:34There was no organizer here.
04:36Everyone was saving their own lives.
04:40There are a number of people
04:42who have suffered serious injuries.
04:44The FIR, however, does not mention
04:46the organizing body which is
04:48Jagrat Guna Sakaar Vishwa Hari.
04:50Baba Bholenath has also not been
04:52mentioned in the FIR.
04:54The incident that took place yesterday,
04:56due to the crowd,
04:58in Bhagadadi,
05:00one after the other,
05:02this incident took place.
05:04When we went to the village,
05:06there was a crowd.
05:08When the villagers came to know
05:10that this incident had taken place,
05:12some people in our group
05:14called us
05:16and told us to inform them.
05:18Some contacted us by phone,
05:20some by mail,
05:22then some reached us.
05:24Then we all searched.
05:26Somewhere it was here,
05:28somewhere it was there,
05:30somewhere it was in Agra.
05:34If you tell us about Baba,
05:36why is Baba so important here?
05:38Baba's satsang
05:40has been going on
05:42for a long time.
05:44Devotees have joined.
05:46What do they feel?
05:50They go.
05:52There is some benefit
05:54when they go.
05:56People here are complaining
05:58about lack of assistance
06:00from police on the day.
06:02Many are now demanding compensation
06:04and proper investigation into the matter.
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