‘I can't leave him alone': Man seen wailing at grave of son, who lost life in Bengaluru stampede

BENGALURU: The visuals of a man wailing and clinging to his son’s grave have surfaced. B T Lakshman, father of Bhumik Lakshman (21), who died in the stampede that broke out during the victory parade of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the IPL at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, is seen wailing at his son’s grave in Hassan. 11 people, including a 14-year-old girl, were killed when a stampede broke out during RCB's Victory Parade.

‘What happened to my son should not happen to anyone. He is cremated in the land I bought for him. I don’t want to go anywhere else now. I want to stay here. No father should face what I am facing,’ he said.

RCB won the IPL title after 18 years. Final-year engineering student Bhumik Lakshman was among the lakhs of people who gathered outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium on Wednesday to celebrate and watch.

After the tragedy, Lakshman had addressed the media and requested the government not to conduct post-mortem on his son's body. ‘I had only one son and now I have lost him. Please give his body without conducting a postmortem. The chief minister and deputy chief minister may visit us but they can’t bring him back,’ he said tearfully.