Two announcements, three minutes apart, about a Prayagraj-bound Kumbh Special train, but mentioning different platforms may have sparked the deadly stampede that killed at least 18 at New Delhi Railway Station on Saturday night, a report of the incident by the Railway Protection Force said. Crowds of Passengers seen at the New Delhi Railway Station a day after the stampede. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo) The two announcements, the first one saying the train would leave from Platform 12, and the second, Platform 16 came just before what the report terms “a stampede-like situation”. HT has reviewed a copy of the report that refutes the Indian Railways version of events, which claims that there was no announcement regarding Platform 16. The incident report prepared by inspector in-charge of RPF’s New Delhi post mentions that after the announcements for Kumbh Special, passengers from platform number 12, 13,14 and 15 tried to reach pedestrian bridge number 2 and 3 using the staircases while passengers of Magadh Express and Uttar Sampark Kranti Express that were stationed on platform numbers 14 …