India temple tragedy: cops threw injured and dead off the bridge, says survivor

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"When I told them my brother had died, they said that ‘now your brother is dead, why should you live on?’ and threw me off the bridge."

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Source/Credit: The Hindustan Times
By HT Correspondent | October 13, 2013

Survivors of the Ratangarh temple tragedy who reached Bhopal made the shocking allegation that policemen not only threw into the river bodies of those who were crushed in the stampede but injured persons as well.

Geeta Mishra, 55, who hails from Daboh in Bhind district, said she saw policemen throwing the dead and injured into the river. “Nearly 25 people were thrown off the bridge and some of them were alive,” she said.

Teenaged Ashish, whose five-year-old brother, Golu, died in the tragedy, said, “When I was trying to take my brother's body away, the police threw him into the river,” he said.

"When I told them my brother had died, they said that ‘now your brother is dead, why should you live on?’ and threw me off the bridge," said a visibly shaken Ashish, 15, who broke a leg after being thrown off.

Ashish alleged that the policemen were searching the pockets of victims, including the dead, and then throwing them off the bridge.



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