My mother fell and died on the spot. My father then removed her body sometime later and kept it on the side. Once the crowd thinned, it was shifted to an ambulance. After postmortem, it was sent off at 6 pm on Wednesday and arrived in the village around 11 am today,

Moments before a deadly stampede at the world's biggest religious gathering in India, Hindu devotees queuing to take a spiritual bath in a river said they pleaded with police to open barricaded routes to thin out a surging crowd.