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| More than 50 feared dead, as train runs over people in northern India | More than 50 feared dead, as train runs over people in northern India |
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| Dozens are feared dead after a train ran over a crowd of people near railway tracks in Amritsar, near the Pakistani border. Many more have been injured. | |
| Police say that they are expecting over 50 casualties, and Indian newspaper First Post is reporting 30 deaths, after a train plowed at high speed through a crowded religious rally, which appears to have been held alongside a railway track. | Police say that they are expecting over 50 casualties, and Indian newspaper First Post is reporting 30 deaths, after a train plowed at high speed through a crowded religious rally, which appears to have been held alongside a railway track. |
| Unverified video footage from the scene shows the train plowing through the crowd, who had gathered to burn an effigy of Hindu demon-king Ravana, the culmination of the yearly festival of Dussehra. | Unverified video footage from the scene shows the train plowing through the crowd, who had gathered to burn an effigy of Hindu demon-king Ravana, the culmination of the yearly festival of Dussehra. |
| Witnesses report several children among the victims, and say that the revelers did not hear the train approach due to the loud bangs of fireworks. | Witnesses report several children among the victims, and say that the revelers did not hear the train approach due to the loud bangs of fireworks. |
| Rescue operations are currently underway, as police and volunteers search for bodies under the debris. | |
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