Stampede at Mumbai Railway Station Kills at Least 22<br />29, 2017<br />NEW DELHI — Commuters stampeded on a narrow, crowded railway station overpass in India’s financial capital, Mumbai,<br />during the morning rush hour on Friday, leaving at least 22 suffocated or crushed to death and 36 injured.<br />Officials have not yet given a cause for the tragedy,<br />but India’s railway minister, Piyush Goyal, announced a review of the safety and capacity of all such spots in Mumbai’s suburban rail network, saying it would be a top priority to widen and repair overpasses where needed.<br />One of the worst in recent years was near the Ratangarh Hindu temple in the city<br />of Datia in northern central India on Oct. 13, 2013, which left 89 people dead.<br />The disaster was a stunning reminder of the poor safety conditions on India’s railways<br />and the frequency of crowd-related accidents, even in rapidly modernizing metropolises like Mumbai.<br />Shruti Lokre, who was caught in the crush but survived, told the news channel NDTV<br />that heavy rain had slowed people down even as a crowd of commuters built up behind them.
