{"id":19112,"date":"2018-10-19T16:23:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19112"},"modified":"2018-10-19T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:23:02","slug":"dozens-feared-dead-as-train-runs-over-crowd-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19112","title":{"rendered":"Dozens feared dead as train runs over crowd in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"87.0201809325\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Dozens of people are feared killed after a train ran into a crowd in northern India, according to local media reports and a local politician.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The incident on Friday took place\u00a0<span>on the outskirts of Amritsar city, Punjab state, where a<\/span>\u00a0crowd had assembled near a railway track\u00a0to watch a religious festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;There are more than 50 casualties. The priority now is to take the injured to the hospital,&#8221; Amritsar city police commissioner S. S. Srivastava told news agencies.<\/p>\n<p>At least 60 people were admitted to hospital with injuries, police officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Pratap Singh Bajwa, a\u00a0Congress party leader in Punjab state, told the Associated Press news agency that at least 50 people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>He said the crowd did not see the speeding train approaching, adding that the train did not stop after the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said relief and rescue operations were ongoing at the site on a &#8220;war footing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a tweet he was &#8220;extremely saddened&#8221; by the accident and that he had asked officials to provide &#8220;immediate assistance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"6.65644171779\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Extremely saddened by the train accident in Amritsar. The tragedy is heart-wrenching. My deepest condolences to the families of those who lost their loved ones and I pray that the injured recover quickly. Have asked officials to provide immediate assistance that is required.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1053302267884027904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of people are feared killed after a train ran into a crowd in northern India, according to local media reports and a local politician. The incident on Friday took place\u00a0on the outskirts of Amritsar city, Punjab state, where a\u00a0crowd had assembled near a railway track\u00a0to watch a religious festival. &#8220;There are more than 50&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}