For locals at the Kauri village and some people whose friends and relatives were in the two trains in the 1998 accident, the Friday night crash was nothing less than deja vu.
Dalbir Singh, the man who played the character of demon king Ravana at the Ramleela in Amritsar, was among the 59 people who died in the tragic train accident on the auspicious evening of Dusshera that turned into woebegone.