Hundreds of thousands had packed the streets in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru on Wednesday to welcome home their hero Virat Kohli and his RCB team-mates after they beat Punjab Kings in a thrilling IPL final.
Most of the dead were young fans aged between 14 and 29 who had gone out just to catch a glimpse of their heroes.
RCB offered financial aid of $11,655 to each family of those killed.
“Our fans will always remain at the heart of everything that we do,“ RCB said. “We remain united in grief.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the accident “absolutely heartrending”.
Police used mild force to disperse people outside the stadium, an eyewitness told AFP, but the crowd was “extremely difficult” to control.
He said celebrations should have been delayed to prepare for the widely expected mass crowds.
“You should take all precautionary measures, they should have police protection and follow the queue system.”
“They stamped on me,“ said the woman, who did not give her name, from a wheelchair.
- ‘Died in an RCB shirt’ -
“I wanted him to go to college,“ Kumar told the Indian Express newspaper.
A grieving mother outside a city mortuary said her 22-year-old engineering student son had also died.
“He died in an RCB shirt. They danced when RCB won and now he is gone. Can RCB give him back to us?”
But organisers pressed ahead with the welcome ceremony and celebrations inside the stadium.
The team said they cut short the celebrations “immediately upon being made aware of the situation”.
Karnataka state chief minister Siddaramaiah said that the stadium had a capacity of “only 35,000 people, but 200,000-300,000 people came”.
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