Vinod Kumar was away from home on Tuesday, as he usually is for days at a time in search of masonry work, when he got the dreadful call.
All the women in his family, three generations of them, were dead, crushed in a stampedeFor the rest of the day, Mr. Kumar and his three sons went from hospital to hospital searching for their loved ones among the bodies of the 121 people who had died when a large gathering of a spiritual guru broke into deadly panic.Close to midnight, they found the bodies of his wife, Raj Kumari, 42, and daughter, Bhumi, 9, atthe government hospital in Hathras, laid out on large slabs of ice among the dozens others in the corridor. Read more below
