Amritsar Train Accident  

The Shiv Sena members of Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, conducted a special puja for the people, who died in Amritsar train accident during Dusshera festival. The priest chanted slogans of Jai Sri Ram, while he and other members paid floral tributes to the victims of this tragedy.

 

Collisions, derailments, accidents at level crossings, train fires and similar accidents that have serious repercussions in terms of casualties and damage to property are called consequential train accidents

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said that the government would bear the cost of medical treatments of the injured admitted to different hospitals.

 

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At least 61 people were killed and 72 injured on Friday evening after several Dussehra revellers, who had spread onto the railway tracks while watching the burning of a Ravana effigy, were run over by a train.

'People should restrain from organising such events near tracks in future. Drivers are given specific instructions on where to slow down. There was a curve, driver couldn't have seen it. About what should we order an inquiry? Trains travel in speed only,' Union MoS for Railways Manoj Sinha said

According to the police commissioner, a survey of the area had been conducted as VVIPs were expected at the Dusshera event

When MyNation questioned the Punjab chief minister whether he was merely fulfilling a formality by reaching the spot of the train accident, Captain Amarinder Singh said, 'Don't scream at me.'

Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani said railway staff was present at all level crossings. The local officials were not alerted about the congregation

More than 300 people were standing along the railway track to watch the burning of Ravan's effigy as part of the Dussehra celebrations near the Joda Phatak area of Amritsar.