Up to 15 reported killed in Indian train collision
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About 30 people are also reported to have been injured after a freight train hit a passenger train in West Bengal.
As many as 15 people have been killed and dozens injured after a freight train collided with a passenger train in India’s West Bengal state.
The cargo train hit the Kanchanjunga Express in the Darjeeling district of the eastern state on Monday morning. Initial reports suggest that the cause of the accident was human error. India’s busy railways record hundreds of accidents every year.
At least 15 bodies have been pulled from the mangled carriages, Abhishek Roy, a senior police official in the eastern state’s district of Darjeeling, the site of the accident, told the Reuters news agency.
Nearly 30 people were injured and rescue teams from the police and national disaster response force were working with doctors and residents of the area to clear debris from the derailed carriages, Roy added.
Sabyasachi De, the spokesperson of the Northeast Frontier Railway, said three of the dead were railway personnel.
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