Amritsar tragedy: 60 feared dead as train runs over people watching Ravan effigy burning

The revellers at Dussehra celebrations were standing close to railway tracks to watch a Ravan effigy burn when the local passenger train hit the people standing on the track,

Amritsar Police and volunteers carry a victim from the site of a train accident at Joda Phatak in Amritsar on Friday, October 19, 2018.(PTI) 

The site of a railway accident near the venue of Dussehra festivities at Joda Phatak in Amritsar Friday Oct 19 2018. Officials said at least 60 bodies have been found and many more injured have been admitted to a government hospital. (PTI)

Relatives mourn at the site of the train accident at Joda Phatak in Amritsar. (PTI)

People gather near the site of the train accident at Joda Phatak in Amritsar. (PTI)

Footware of victims seen at the site of the train accident at Joda Phatak in Amritsar. (PTI)

Injured victims of the train accident being treated at a hospital in Amritsar. (PTI)

An injured person of the train accident undergoes treatment at a hospital in Amritsar. (PTI)

Relatives of victims of the train accident mourn at civil Hospital at Joda Phatak in Amritsar. (PTI)

Navjot Kaur Sidhu, wife of Punjab minister of Tourism Cultural Affairs, comes out of a hospital after enquiring about the well being of train accident victims in Amritsar. (PTI)

Amritsar MP Gurjit Singh Aujla consoles a relative of the train accident victim at a hospital in Amritsar. (PTI)