Amritsar train tragedy: How poor crowd management, official apathy and overcrowding led to Dussehra disaster
6 years, 2 months ago

Amritsar train tragedy: How poor crowd management, official apathy and overcrowding led to Dussehra disaster

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The Ram Lila was staged this week—like it has been for at least 14 years—not on an open ground but within the four-walled compound of a rustic dhobhi ghat. It was too dark for us to notice any train coming our way at that hour,” said Hemant Rai, a local car trader, who was present at yesterday’s fiasco and helped ferry injured to hospitals. Ramesh Kumar, who ekes put a living as a bronze worker, and is now recuperating from severe injuries at the Amritsar Civil Hospital, said “the whole world was on the railway tracks” on Friday after 6 p, as they “watched the LED screen blare out Punjabi numbers.” There was no way to watch that screen except from on the tracks, and so people stayed on. The crowd easily dodged these two trains but by the end of their manoeuvres more people ended up on one of the three train tracks: the one closest to the ghat’s perimeter wall. Jaspreet Singh and Shailendra Singh, DSP and SP rank Punjab Police officials on duty at Amritsar Civil Hospital said the train driver cannot be blamed because he got a green signal at a checkpoint just a few hundred meters from the perimeter wall of the dhobhi ghat.

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Amritsar train accident: NHRC issues notice to Punjab government, Railway Board; seeks report in four weeks
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6 years, 2 months ago

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6 years, 2 months ago

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6 years, 2 months ago

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News 18  

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