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KEM Hospital says injured toll at 33: 24 males and nine females.
Both Central and Western Railway services have resumed.
Highlights:
A stampede at the Prabhadevi (Elphinstone Road) station left at least 22 dead and 33 injured on Friday morning.
Railways Minister Piyush Goyal has ordered a high level enquiry that will be headed by the Chief Safety Officer, Western Railways.
Goyal has also carried out an extensive review of the suburban railways with Central Railways and Western Railways.
Railways Minister announced ex-gratia payment of Rs 5 lakh to the next of the kin of deceased and Rs 1 lakh to those who were greviously injured. Victims with minor injuries will be given Rs 50,000.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis too announced ex-gratia Rs 5 lakh for the victims.
An Accidental Death Report (ADR) has been registered at Dadar police station.
Piyush Goyal to conduct emergency meetings with railway officials to discuss various issues.
Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said that all suburban stations will be inspected over the next seven days to identify vulnerable issues. The ministry also plan to speed up work on foot-over-bridges.
Goyal also said that the employees of Mumbai Railways will not celebrate Dusshera in the wake of Mumbai stampede.
Most of the 39 persons who were injured in a stampede on the footbridge between Elphinstone Road and Parel suburban railway stations here today morning are out of danger, authorities at the civic-run KEM Hospital told PTI.
The injured persons are still under observation as a precautionary measure and will be kept at the hospital overnight. Of the 39 injured admitted at KEM Hospital, two are in critical condition. One of them is on ventilator.
The report also said that autopsies of the deceased were over and authorities have started handing over the bodies to families.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is likely to return to Mumbai tonight from Singapore. He is expected to visit the KEM hospital soon, reports CNN-News18.
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Union minister Ramdas Athawale demanded a judicial probe into the Mumbai stampede in which 22 people died and more than 30 injured, reports PTI. "A judicial inquiry should be initiated into the incident as there are reports that rumours were being spread," the Minister of State for Social Justice said.
He also said that "maximum possible" compensation be given to kin of the deceased.
Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant said that he had written to former Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu about the Parel bridge. Speaking to the media, he today said that nothing has been done to improve situation for the 75 lakh commuters who travel by trains every day. There has been no mention of them in the budgets either.
The government is focusing more on Bullet train, but the priority should be local trains, he said.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal today also announced a safety audit of all the foot over bridges across the suburban train network.
"Normally, it takes 20 days to come out with the report (of any incident), but for the auditing purpose of all the FOBs, we need to send technical experts and I guess that within 20 days we will have the audit reports of all the FOBs of the suburban trains," the minister said.' Improving the suburban train services is railways 'highest priority’, he said.
Commenting on today's stampede, Western Railways in a note saud that unprecedented rains caught people unawares. "As people weren't prepared for rains, sudden rain made people from approach road to take shelter at FOB & at staircase," WR said.
There was no structural damage to the foot over bridge, which can be attributed to the stampede, Western Railways told ANI.
After the stampede, it came to light that the Former Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu had assured a Shiv Sena MP last year that a wider bridge would be built in its place.
In a letter dated February 20, 2016, Prabhu had written to Sena MP from Mumbai Arvind Sawant that the "construction of 12 metre wide new foot overbridge at Elphinstone Road was under the positive consideration of Railway Ministry."
Construction of the new bridge, connecting Western Railway and Central Railway after extension of Platform No 1 and 2 towards north side by 100 metres, was under "positive consideration" of the Ministry, Prabhu had written in the letter accessed by PTI.
Shiv Sena today called the Elphinstone stampede as a 'public massacre'.
"The stampede on the foot over bridge at Elphinstone Road railway station is a public massacre of the people by the government," Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said.
A 12 meter new foot-over-bridge is already sanctioned for the Elphinstone road station in 2016-17. The bridge will link the Central and Western Railway. The tender is uploaded and will be opened on November 9.
Health minister JP Nadda also spoke to Railway Minister Piyush Goyal to discuss health of injured people & offered necessary assistance.
No one knows exactly how and why this tragedy took place. But everyone knows it was inevitable. A six-foot-wide staircase, 30-odd steps — some broken — and hundreds of people cramped into that confined space. Something had to give, and it finally did on this fateful Friday.
Mumbai stampede: Post-mortem of a tragedy defined by flowers, not blood.
Read the full story here.
Will bear costs for the injured people. Grievously injured to get Rs 1 lakh, people with minor injuries to get Rs 50,000 ex-gratia: Piyush Goyal
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has said that most deaths have occurred due to asphyxiation and internal injuries.