At least 59 killed as train hits crowd in northern India

Video footage from the scene showed hundreds had gathered to watch the burning of an effigy as part of the Dussehra festival celebrations, when a commuter train ran through the crowd.The toll can rise," State police chief Suresh Arora told Reuters, adding emergency officials were still trying to ascertain the extent of the disaster on the outskirts of Amritsar in Punjab state.A Reuters witness at the scene saw bodies of victims strewn around rail tracks, friends and relatives stood around in sho