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Hindustan Times Allahabad, February 11, 2013 Those who saw the
horrific stampede at the railway station blamed mismanagement of
the huge rush of passengers for the tragedy. Ramji, a resident
of Faizabad, was at platform 6 when the first stampede broke
out.  He said that the crowd of devotees unexpectedly increased
after 5pm and all the platforms and footover bridges (FOBs)
became jam-packed. According to him, there was no space to even
move one step on the FOB where the tragedy occurred. Suddenly,
some people fell from the FOB onto the platform, creating panic
among passengers which soon resulted in a frantic stampede.
Another eyewitness, Shyam Pandey from Surat, said that the
incident was the result of huge rush and mismanagement on the
part of railway authorities.  He said that the GRP and RPF men
failed to control the huge rush of crowd that i ncreased
suddenly after 5pm at all the platforms of Allahabad Junction.
Pandey said he was standing