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A city that will soon have a bullet train doesn’t even have a safe railway bridge, commented angry residents in Mumbai after a stampede left 22 dead and over 30 wounded this morning.
There was a stampede at a foot-over bridge that connects Mumbai’s Elphinstone Road and Parel stations. The incident, which took place at around 10.45 am yesterday on 29 September caused the lives of 22 people, while 27 were injured. Heart-wrenching visuals show dead bodies lying on the bridge.
Clearly, people are outraged after this incident. Several celebrities too displayed their anger on Twitter. Here’re the reactions:
Horrified, saddened & jolted by the deaths & injuries caused due to the stampede at #Elphinstone station in Mumbai. Prayers & condolences.?
— Anupam Kher (@AnupamPkher) September 29, 2017
Weak infra + Overcrowded bridges/Places = Ticking Time Bombs.. Wake up!! This is not the price to pay to learn a lesson #Elphinstone
— Riteish Deshmukh (@Riteishd) September 29, 2017
Tragic . Deepest condolences to the victims families .an avoidable tragedy . Very unfortunate. https://t.co/LQTiVn5I5F
— Raveena Tandon (@TandonRaveena) September 29, 2017
Please Help. https://t.co/InRiZPC8sX
— Ajay Devgn (@ajaydevgn) September 29, 2017
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Oh my God … HEARTBREAKING.. will getting over this without making an improvement or dramatic change, be indifference or resilience? https://t.co/JuFS37sagJ
— Ranganathan Madhavan (@ActorMadhavan) September 29, 2017
Scary. Tragic. Avoidable . #Elphinstone tragedy.
— Boman Irani (@bomanirani) September 29, 2017
Our politics today are measured in the cost of human lives #elphinstone
— Shekhar Kapur (@shekharkapur) September 29, 2017
So tragic and saddening to hear about the #Elphinstone stampede, my prayers and deepest condolences to the families of all the victims?
— Vivek Anand Oberoi (@vivek_oberoi) September 29, 2017
Nowhere do extremes between wealth n poverty show more than in Mumbai. Costliest real estate in world and human tragedies like #elphinstone
— Shekhar Kapur (@shekharkapur) September 29, 2017
Governments are busy renaming stations, roads and landmarks – but they don’t give a damn about the city itself. And we keep electing them.
— Hansal Mehta (@mehtahansal) September 29, 2017
Human life is unfortunately the cheapest thing. Such a heart wrenching incident, innocent people dying even after paying taxes #Elphinstone
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) September 29, 2017
Thoughts and prayers with the families that lost loved ones at #ElphinstoneBridgeTragedy. Very sad news. Rest in peace.
— Abhishek Bachchan (@juniorbachchan) September 29, 2017
People like us, who have to travel daily through local trains will know the pain that we have to go through every single day, either because of the delays, or the lack of proper infrastructure at the railway stations. Had the footover bridge been wide enough, this incident may not have happened. But then as some people are saying on social media, “it was a disaster waiting to happen.”
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