What the records say
- When
- 19 Oct 2018
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 31.63° N, 74.90° E
- Description
- train accident in Amritsar on 19 October 2018
- Deaths
- 61
- Injured
- 100
Amritsar train disaster
Train accident in Amritsar, 2018
On 19 October 2018, two Indian Railways passenger trains hit a crowd of people in the eastern outskirts of Amritsar, Punjab, killing at least 62 people and injuring approximately 200 more. The crowd had gathered to watch celebrations for the Hindu festival of Dussehra and were standing on the tracks.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “At least 59 people are killed and at least 100 injured when a train runs through a crowd at a Hindu festival in Punjab, India”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Accident ferroviaire d'Amritsar”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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