India, Feb. 17 -- A class 5 student at a Delhi government school, Suruchi was at the railway station with her mother and other relatives, excited to attend the Kumbh Mela. Her father Manoj Sah, a factory worker at a Tikri border, dropped them off around 8pm. Little did he know that that would be the last time he would see his daughter alive. "I received a call around 11pm from my brother-in-law that there was a stampede and everyone got separated... He was pleading for help, and said people were running over each other. I almost fell when I heard this. I told him to look for my daughter... But she's gone. She was my only daughter," said Manoj, as he stood outside the hospital around 1am.
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