Twenty-two people died and over 30 sustained injuries in a stampede on a foot overbridge at Mumbai's Elphinstone Railway Station in Parel in the suburban section of Western Railway on Friday around 10:30 am, according to media reports.
The incident occurred at around 9.30 a.m. here at a north foot over bridge.
Commuters panicked upon hearing a rumour that a bridge had collapsed, eyewitnesses said. According to some others, there was a short circuit leading to overcrowding on the bridge.
The station was named Elphinstone Road Station in honour of John Elphinstone who served as the Governor of Bombay from 1853 to 1860.
The Elphinstone Road station on the Western railway was renamed as Prabhadevi after the Hindu goddess Prabhavati Devi in July this year. The move was a part of the state and Centre's joint station renaming spree.
The name-change proposal was passed on December 16, 2016, during the winter session of the Maharashtra Assembly in Nagpur.
The Elphinstone Road station is the nearest access point for the newly developed business district of Lower Parel.
The foot-overbridge that leads to the exit from the station also connects the Parel station on suburban section of Central Railway.
The station has just one set of platforms – one and two – for commuters on which only slow trains (suburban) halt.
Western and Central Railway are the lifeline of Mumbai, as lakhs of office workers commute on it, most of them by the suburban trains.