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Amritsar train accident: 58 dead, 72 injured as train mows down crowd

On an average, over 45 people die every day on the rail tracks in the country

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Police and volunteers carry a victim from the site of a train accident in Amritsar | Photo: PTI

Shine Jacob New Delhi
Over 58 persons have been killed and 72 injured after a train ran over a group of people during Dussehra celebrations in Amritsar’s Joda on Friday. 

This is not a one-off incident in the railways. According to statistics, over 45 people, on an average, die every day on the rail tracks in India. 
 
According to official railway figures, in the last three years (between 2015 and 2017), at least 49,790 persons lost their lives after being hit by trains. Friday's accident is considered to be the biggest such mishap in the recent past when the Nakodar to Jalandhar DMU train

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