Outside the mortuary of Bowring Hospital in Bengaluru stood Manoj Kumar, a pani puri seller and the father of an 18-year-old first-year college student who was among the 11 killed in the stampede Wednesday.“I did not allow him to clean the plates at my pani puri shop because I wanted him to go to college. I brought him up with a lot of care. Now, he is gone,” said Kumar.Outside the mortuary at the Vydehi Hospital in Bengaluru, a mother was devastated. Her 22-year-old son Prajwal G, an engineering student, was also among the victims. “He was crazy about RCB. He died in an RCB shirt,” she told a relative. “They danced when RCB won and now he is gone. Can RCB give him back to us?” she said.A student at Presidency College in north Bengaluru, Manoj Kumar had gone for the RCB victory celebrations with three of his friends from his neighborhood. “It was Manoj who insisted that we should go to the stadium,” one of his friends Satvik said outside the mortuary as they waited for Manoj’s parents to arrive.Read | ‘No crowd control measures, no planning’: Opposition slams Karnataka government over RCB victory parade stampedeIn the melee, the friends had lost Manoj. They came to know that their friend was no more from Md Hussain, 24, an eyewitness who had helped take Manoj to the Bowring Hospital and had his mobile phone. The stampede broke out around 4 pm when more than 15 people, including a woman, fell on the ground in the rush of the crowd outside Gate 3 of the stadium. (Express photo by Jithendra M)“Around 3.35 pm, the crowd which was waiting outside gate number 20 of the Chinnaswamy Stadium for over an hour became restless. When the gate was opened a bit for checking, the crowd pushed through the gate. There were only three policemen and a few stadium security guards,” said Hussain, an MBA student. “All those who suffered injuries or died had entered the stadium when they were trampled after falling down. This person’s leg got stuck in a police barricade and he fell… some 500 people trampled over him. With police support, we had to fight with the crowd for two hours to get his body out of the stadium. It took another hour to take him to hospital,” Hussain said.“I had come with my friends. They entered… I couldn’t as I halted to help those who were being trampled,” Hussain said.Story continues below this adSimilar stories unfolded at atleast in two other gates. “There were three people who were moved from Gate 14 in police jeeps who died,” said an eyewitness, adding, “The roads were completely jammed and ambulances could not reach the gates.”At the Bowring Hospital, family members identified the body of Divyanshi, 14, a schoolgirl from Kannuru in Bengaluru, who had come with her mother, aunt, younger sister, and other family members for the RCB felicitation.Read | Chinnaswamy stadium can hold 35,000 people, 2-3 lakh turned up“There was no police presence at the stadium. There was no one to provide CPR or anything. We put her in a car and took her to hospital. There was so much police protection when the CM came but nothing at the stadium,” an aunt of Divyanshi who was at the stadium said at the mortuary. On Wednesday, 11 people including women died and 47 others were injured as RCB fans stampeded into Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium to catch a glimpse of the winners. (Express Photo by Jithendra M)Devi, 29, an employee at a private firm in Bengaluru, had gone alone, said a colleague waiting at the mortuary for her family from Tamil Nadu to arrive. “We were trying to call her for a long time after hearing of the stampede… someone answered and asked us to come to the hospital,” said Daivik, a colleague.Story continues below this adAfter leaving work early Wednesday with seven of her colleagues, Sahana, 21, was killed in the stampede. She had joined the MNC recently.Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Wednesday issued a statement following the death of 11 people and over 47 injuries in a stampede that happened when thousands gathered to celebrate the IPL final victory of franchise. (Express Photo | Jithendra M)Poorna Chandra, 25, who hailed from Mandya district, had met his to-be wife a few days ago. “In videos on social media, we saw people trying to revive him… and informed his family,” said a family friend who was trying to locate his body at the Bowring Hospital mortuary. Eventually, the body was found to be at Vydehi Hospital.“It could have been a paid event later which would have restricted the crowds,” said Hussain.IPL Chairman Arun Dhumal said, “Whatever inquiry that needs to be done, the concerned authorities will do that. It was not a BCCI event. It is sad and tragic.”