Time and again, we have witnessed tragic incidents where extreme worship of film heroes taking lives. Another such incident took place on Tuesday in this cinema-crazy country.
As per reports, 1 person was killed as crowd went berserk after Shah Rukh Khan arrived at the Vadodara (in Gujarat) railway station by August Kranti Rajdhani Express to promote his upcoming film ‘Raees’. SRK boarded the train from Mumbai to Delhi as part of his promotional campaign titled ‘Raees by Rail’.
The Delhi bound train reportedly arrived at Vadodara station at around 10AM this morning and halted for just 10 minutes. By that time, fans of Shah Rukh had gathered in large numbers to have a glimpse of him. As soon as the train arrived, the crowd went berserk and rushed towards it. The policemen posted there to control the crowd had to do even mild lathicharge to control the situation.
‘When the train started moving, some fanatic fans started running along with it. In the ensued stampede, one person died and two policemen were injured,’ said reports.