Most victims of Hathras stampede identified: UP govt

PTI, Jul 3, 2024, 8:01 AM IST

Hathras: Body of a victim of the Hathras stampede lie at Bagla District Hospital, in Hathras, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Over 100 were killed and several injured in the stampede, according to officials. (Credit: PTI)

Hathras (UP): Most of the 116 people who died in a stampede during a ‘satsang’ organised in Sikandra Rao area of the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday have been identified, the Uttar Pradesh government said.

Devotees had come to the ‘satsang’ from various districts of Uttar Pradesh as well as neighbouring states.

Aligarh Zone Inspector General of Police (IG) Shalabh Mathur told PTI, “116 people have died in the stampede incident in Hathras.” Etah and Hathras are adjacent districts and people from Etah had also come to attend the ‘satsang’.

Efforts are being made to identify the remaining bodies, officials said.

Earlier, Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar Singh, while giving details of the casualties to journalists, said that out of the 116 victims, seven are children, one man and the rest are women.

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