Crowds Throw Stones At Punjab Station After Special Festival Train To Bihar Cancelled

The train was scheduled to run as a special service to carry people home amid the festival season

Hundreds of people waiting for a special train scheduled to travel from Punjab to Bihar started vandalising a railway station in Sirhind after the train was cancelled.

The train was scheduled to run as a special service to carry people home amid the festival season. It was to run from Sirhind railway station in Punjab's Fatehgarh Sahib to Saharsa in Bihar.

Visuals show hundreds of people crowding on the platform and the railway tracks, shouting slogans. Many of them picked up stones and threw them on the police and some parked passenger trains.