India, Feb. 17 -- From Jhajjar in Haryana to Delhi to finally Nawada in Bihar - this was the journey daily wager Raj Kumar Manjhi, 42, his wife Shanti, and their children Pooja and Avinash were going to undertake to avail benefits under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana scheme. Little did they know that the journey and the dream would be cut short this brutally. Shanti was killed in the stampede, and her body was identified by Manjhi. "I didn't even know the name of the train. I just knew the platform number, 7, and the time, 10 pm... Look what has happened," said Manjhi.
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