NDLS Porter Recalls Tragic Night Of New Delhi Stampede

A porter at New Delhi Railway Station has emotionally narrated the harrowing scenes from the stampede that took place in the night of Feb 15 at New Delhi Railway station. While speaking to ANI, he said, "We were working like any other day when we suddenly heard screams. All of us, all porters, rushed there. We saw children on the floor, women & men running helter-skelter. People were screaming. We pulled up a lot of children and brought them out. A few people had died and some others had fallen unconscious. We brought them to the ambulance. I rescued out 8-10 children...A woman was crying that her 4-year-old daughter died. I rescued the child and brought her out. Two minutes later, the child started breathing again, and she broke down. Her mother burst into tears of joy...We can call ourselves either brave or fools that we too jumped in, risking our lives...We saved several lives...I saw such scenes for the first time in my life...Entire staff, GRP, RPF and porters were working on it...The crowd was for several trains. It happens every day, not just yesterday. But only God knows what happened...But porters helped a lot, there are 1478 porters here..."