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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SBWoof" data-source="post: 23768556" data-attributes="member: 565423"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px">At least fifty people have been killed after being run over by a train in northern India while watching an effigy burn, reports say.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px">The effigy was being burned near railway tracks in Amritsar, Punjab, in honour of the major Hindu festival of Dussehra, which is celebrated every autumn.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px">It is thought 700 people were present at the celebration and an eyewitness said that the crowd could not hear the train coming.  </span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px">"The people were sitting on and near the tracks on the outskirts of Amritsar watching the burning of effigies as part of the Dusshera festival when a commuter train ran over them," a police officer told Reuters.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px">Pratap Singh Bajwa, a Congress party leader, said that the train did not stop after the accident. </span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px">Many others have been injured and have been rushed to nearby hospitals. </span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px">Amarinder Singh, Punjab chief minister, said he was rushing to the state capital Amritsar to supervise relief and rescue operations.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px">"District authorities have been mobilised on war footing," he tweeted.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px">Following the accident, a large number of villagers rushed to the site and condemned railroad authorities for not taking precautions in view of the festival. </span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px">While accidents are relatively common on India's sprawling rail network, this incident was among India's deadliest in recent years. </span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px">In 2016, 146 people were killed when a train slid off railroad tracks in eastern India.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">[YOUTUBE]zKowYnp56Zs[/YOUTUBE]</p></blockquote><p></p>

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