Kolkata, Oct. 19 -- Akriti Kumari, 17, was for the first time accompanied by her relatives, some of whom had arrived from Gaya in Bihar, for pandal hopping in Kolkata. A trip to the Chor Bagan pandal, one of the city's most popular Durga Puja venues, on Saturday evening turned out to be her last after a tragic stampede claimed 19 lives and left several others injured. "We had seen the idol and were going out. My sister (Akriti) was holding my hand. The pressure was increasing with each second. There was no way out," Sukriti Raut, Akriti's cousin from Gaya, told reporters. Raut recalled that her cousin, a resident of Bally in Howrah district, was stuck in the crowd as the pressure from all directions mounted. "Then the stampede started and s...