A speeding train has run over a crowd watching fireworks during a religious festival in northern India, killing at least 60 people, police said. The Guardian
The train failed to stop after the accident on the outskirts of Amritsar, a city in Punjab state, according to Congress party politician Pratap Singh Bajw. Railway police officer Sukhwinder Singh said on Saturday that the death toll had risen to 60. Another 50 people have been injured and hospitalised. A witness said the train had not even sounded its whistle as it sped past the site, where hundreds were watching the burning of an effigy of the demon king Ravana during the Hindu festival of Dussehra.
