Amritsar train tragedy: How poor crowd management, official apathy and overcrowding led to Dussehra disaster
Monday, October 22, 2018 IST
Even a cursory walk through the Joda Phatak locality of Amritsar reveals that the death of 59 people during the Ram Lila revelries on Friday evening was not the result of a sudden mishap. It seems more like an obvious outcome of decades of mismanagement and apathy towards how festivities in this part of the holy city are organised.
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