Students injured in stampede at Mumbai college fest still critical
Shiv Kumar
Tribune News Service
Mumbai, December 21
Eight students were injured in a stampede at a festival at Mumbai’s Mithibai College on Thursday evening, according to police.
Officials said there was a huge rush by students to enter the venue of a concert, where rapper Divine was to perform. Some of the students fell down in the melee and were trampled upon by others, according to the police.
Eight of the students were rushed to the RN Cooper Hospital in Juhu where three of them were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit in a critical condition, according to the police.
The injured were identified as Kunal Chavan, 17, Max D’Souza, 18, Shadab Shaikh, 24, David Bangera, 20, Kalyani Agarwal, 18, Hitesh Kamble, 20, Prutha Vetaskar, 19, and Nikhil Pawar, 15. Hospital
officials said Bangera, Kamble and Pawar were in the ICU, while the others were in a stable condition.
The concert was part of the annual festival Colosseum organised by the students of the Bachelor of Management Studies.
The mishap happened at around 9 pm when scores of people with “fake” passes tried to gate-crash into the venue, the police quoting college officials said.
