Patna: A day after the stampede during Dussehra festivities in Patna, many are still looking for their loved ones. Thirty three people lost their lives and around 21 others were injured in the stampede at the Gandhi Maidan on Friday night.
A 16-year-old girl named Priyanka is one those who were missing. Her brother Ravi has been searched for her everywhere but to no avail.
He said, "We searched in the hospital. We checked the lists as well but her name wasn't there. We even searched the morgues but did not find her."
The Class 9th student had gone with friends to watch Ravan Dahan on the occassion of Dussehra. She got separated from her friends during the stampede.
But Priyanka was not the only one. According to Patna police, over a dozen missing complaints have been received so far. But some have been reunited with their families.
A four-year-old Chahat Kumari was spotted by a Muslim woman who saved her and took care of her until the police could trace her parents.
Reshma said, "We brought her home, bathed her, fed her, took care of her and then brought her back to the police."
Her father said, "We searched everywhere. We looked for her the whole night."
But not all reunions have been happy ones. One-year-old Anmol was also reunited with his family but his mother lost her life in the stampede.
People are looking for their family members from PMCH emergency ward to hospital's mortuary to police stations, begging and pleading with every person they meet. But their trauma will continue till they get back their missing family members.
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