Hope, anxiety, anger: After hours at LNJP

Nearly 10 ambulances, families trying to look for their missing kin, scores of police personnel, and fretful medical staff -- all rushing around the campus of the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narain (LNJP) Hospital -- was seen as the aftermath of the massive stampede at the New Delhi Railway Station as uncertainty around deaths and injuries shrouded hundreds of victims on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.

- Jignasa Sinha

NEW DELHI:

As per the Delhi Police record, at least 18 people died and 15 more were left injured after the incident. After the stampede, as many as 28 people were rushed to the LNJP Hospital and entry gates were barricaded after all the patients were taken in. Heavy police and para-military deployment was immediately put up for safety and management purposes.

Soon after the patients were let in, families came rushing -- some even on foot -- to the hospital. Many were stopped by security guards who checked their names and identity cards.