Carried bodies on handcarts: Porters recall stampede horror

New Delhi: With the death toll in the overnight stampede at the New Delhi Railway Station climbing to 18 on Sunday, porters recounted their harrowing experience of carrying bodies on handcarts amid the chaos.Describing the situation, Krishna Kumar Jogi, a porter at the station, said the crowd swelled when a train bound for Prayagraj arrived. Citing the cause of the stampede, Northern Railway's Chief Public Relations Officer Himanshu Upadhyay said on Sunday, "Some people who were coming down from the footover bridge towards platform numbers 14 and 15 using stairs slipped and fell on others." With the death toll in the overnight stampede at the New Delhi Railway Station climbing to 18 on Sunday, porters recounted their harrowing experience of carrying bodies on handcarts amid the chaos.Describing the situation, Krishna Kumar Jogi, a porter at the station, said the crowd swelled when a train bound for Prayagraj arrived. We carried dead bodies from platform numbers 14 and 15 to the ambulance," he added.Children and women were among those crushed in the crowd, struggling to breathe amid the suffocation, he said.Citing the cause of the stampede, Northern Railway's Chief Public Relations Officer Himanshu Upadhyay said on Sunday, "Some people who were coming down from the footover bridge towards platform numbers 14 and 15 using stairs slipped and fell on others.