News India Live, Digital Desk: What happened in Karur, Tamil Nadu is not just an accident, but thousands of expectations are to be choking. People came to see their favorite film stars and leader Vijay, but what did they know that this meeting would prove to be the last for many people. Hearing the words of those who survived in that terrible stampede, the heart is shaken. They are telling how the atmosphere of celebration turned into mourning in a few moments.
“Humans were flooded, not a place to escape”
Recalling the dreadful scene, a Survivor said, “It was not a common crowd, it seemed as if humans had flooded.” Alam was that there was no place with ropes and big hoardings on both sides of the road that there was no place to escape to someone when there was no stampede, many people were injured under the hoardings.
Those who came with their family got separated in a moment. A woman cried crying, “We were all falling on top of each other. Nobody was able to get up to see where they had their own, because every person had ten to ten people.” Another woman told how they fell into their neighboring crowd in front of their eyes. He said, “We kept shouting for help, but no one could even move. It was difficult to breathe.”
The chaos and waiting for hours spoiled the game?
Eyewitnesses say that the major reason for this accident was the negligence of the organizers and the crowd more than the expectation. More people had reached there than the crowd allowed by the police. Actor Vijay was to come in the afternoon, but he arrived in the evening for several hours. Hungry and thirsty waiting since morning became uncontrollable as soon as he arrived.
The most painful: when the path was not found even for ambulance
The horrors of the accident increased further when there was no way to take the injured to the hospital. The crowd was so high that the ambulance kept playing sirens, but they could not find a place to move forward. Many people broke the last hope of saving their loved ones, seeing the ambulance stuck in a jam. These were the moment when something else could be saved, but everything looked helpless and helpless.
Today, the pain of losing loved ones in the winds of Karur is dissolved. Everyone is asking the same question that who is responsible for this negligence, due to which 39 lives have gone, including many women and children.
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