Vinod Kumar was away from home on Tuesday, as he usually is for days at a time in search of masonry work, when he got the dre.a đful call.
All the women in his family, three generations of them, were d.e αd, c.r ∪shed in a stampede.
For the rest of the day, Mr. Kumar and his three sons went from hospital to hospital searching for their loved ones among the bo.d ìes of the 121 people who had d.i ℮d when a large gathering of a spiritual guru broke into deadly panic.
Close to midnight, they found the bo.d ίes of his wife, Raj Kumari, 42, and daughter, Bhumi, 9, at the government hospital in Hathras, laid out on large slabs of ice among the dozens others in the corridor.
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