At least 15 dead after overcrowding at New Delhi railway station, NDTV reports

At least 15 people, including 10 women and three children, died in the chaos of passengers rushing for two delayed trains at New Delhi’s railway station, NDTV reported on Sunday, citing officials.

Indian railways later dismissed talk of a stampede as “a rumor” but confirmed that an undisclosed number of people had been injured and taken to hospital.

“Railway Police and Delhi Police have reached the station. The situation is under control, and the injured have been taken to the hospital,” Indian railways said.

Dozens of people were killed in a pre-dawn stampede at the Kumbh festival in northern India late last month after tens of millions of Hindus gathered to take a dip in sacred river waters on the most auspicious day of a six-week festival.