Five people are reported to have died in a stampede that resulted from overcrowding at the Indian capital New Delhi's railway station Saturday. Reports from the station, which handles about three hundred thousand passengers each day, said the stampede occurred around noon when a large crowd appeared at the station to board a train leaving for the eastern Indian state of Bihar. No official reason was available for the sudden stampede, but officials said the cause was a sudden spurt in the number of passengers. About five hundred thousand passengers had thronged the station by noon. Those who died in the stampede were mainly women.
