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Angry parents staged a rally Saturday on the tracks. A high-speed train swept through a fire that caused the death of 60 people during the latest disaster that ravaged the Indian rail network.
The Express Jalandhar-Amritsar hit dozens of people who had gathered on the runways on Friday to have a view of a fireworks effigy of Ravana's demon king at the time. a Hindu festival.
Most of the victims were dismembered without any recognition and the police said it would take several days to complete the identification of the dead.
Some desperate parents traveled Saturday from a hospital in Amritsar, in the north of the country, to search for missing children, while the first funerals of some victims took place.
Hardeep Singh, Chief Medical Officer of Amritsar, told AFP that 59 deaths had been confirmed and 90 people injured, including seven in critical condition.
Singh said that only 25 bodies had been identified so far. The main hospital of Amritsar did not have enough room in his morgue and corpses were deposited outside.
The disaster has brought new demands for reforming the safety of India's crash-hit railway system, which is killing thousands every year.
Punjab State Governor V.P. Singh Badnore said: "Those who must be punished will be punished and the responsibility will be corrected".
Dozens of protesters who rallied on the railroad tracks condemned the Punjab state government and called for measures against the driver who was questioned by police on Saturday. Others have blocked a nearby road.
– Train not heard –
The police took protesters off the runways and brought in reinforcements to control a crowd of hundreds of people gathered around the scene of the disaster.
Investigators said the victims did not hear the train because the locomotive drone had been drowned by firecrackers. Another train had narrowly missed the crowd two minutes earlier, officials said.
According to media reports, the driver reportedly told the police that he had not seen the revelers before the last second because he had gone through a dark bend in the fireworks smoke.
While the game of accusations was spreading, the police announced that it had authorized the display of the annual fireworks festival of Dussehra, but that the organizers had not obtained the Approval of the city, health service or fire department.
The Indian Railways stated that they had not been informed of the celebration, although the locals said it had been in the same place for several years.
According to the media, the organizers, members of the Congress party that heads Punjab, have been hiding.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal returned early after a trip to the United States to visit Amritsar on Saturday. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh canceled his trip to Israel to visit the scene of the incident.
The huge Indian rail network is renowned for its accidents.
A 2012 government report described the loss of 15,000 passengers as a result of rail accidents each year in India as a "massacre". The government has committed $ 137 billion over five years to modernize the crumbling network.
In 1981, seven cars from one train fell into a river while they were crossing a bridge in the state of Bihar, in the east of the country, killing between 800 and 1,000 people .
But almost every month, there are accidents involving trains that derail or hit vehicles at railway crossings. In April, 13 children were killed when a train fell on their school bus. In November 2016, the Patna-Indore express train derailed in the state of Uttar Pradesh in the middle of the night, killing 139 people.
Indian police are investigating the speed with which a high-speed train has shot down a crowd of revelers, killing about 60 people and injuring dozens more.
Desperate parents traveled Saturday from a hospital in Amritsar, in the north of the country, to search for missing children, while others organized a show of anger at the scene. l & # 39; incident.
