Days later, some families reunite with missing kin

Nearly 36 hours after a deadly stampede at New Delhi Railway Station killed 18 people, families of several "missing" individuals finally received news that their loved ones had survived.

- Jignasa Sinha

NEW DELHI: Many of these survivors had lost their phones in Saturday's chaos and were unable to contact their families.

Md Nadeem, 28, was one of them. His elder brother, Md Mujeeb, had spent two days frantically searching hospitals, mortuaries, and police stations. "After the news of the stampede, I kept calling him, but he never answered. My father lost hope. We were terrified," Mujeeb said. On Monday morning, he finally received a call from an unknown number — it was Nadeem.