Sixty people celebrating Dushhera were killed after a train ran over the crowd standing on a railway track in Amritsar on October 19. The train was travelling from Jalandhar to Amritsar. The crowd gathered to burn Raavana effigy at Jaura Phatak, where the tracks were on the elevated ground.
As the Raavana was lit and fireworks went off, a section of the crowd moved towards the tracks, where a huge crowd was already standing to watch celebrations.