Big accident in Hathras
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The Uttar Pradesh government said that most of the 116 people who died in a stampede during a ‘satsang’ organised in the Sikandra Rao area of Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district on Tuesday have been identified. Devotees from various districts of Uttar Pradesh as well as neighbouring states had come to attend the satsang.
Aligarh Zone Inspector General of Police (IG) Shalabh Mathur said that 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’.
Doctors and staff were called from the entire district for post-mortem
As soon as the information of the accident was received, CMO along with ACMO reached the emergency of the medical college. As the injured kept coming, they were declared dead and sent for postmortem. There were so many dead bodies that the doctors at the district headquarters fell short. Doctors and staff were called from all over the district. 10 doctors were engaged in the postmortem process.
After the incident in Hathras district, the health department came on alert mode. Doctors were immediately called in the emergency. During this, four injured were treated. At the same time, doctors were called from Sakit, Jaithra, Marhara, Nidhauli Kalan, Awagarh etc. places for the post-mortem of the dead.