Dozens killed after bomb derails train in India
At least 65 people have been killed and around 200 people injured after a passenger train derailed by a suspected Maoist rebel bomb was hit by a freight train in West Bengal. The train, which was travelling overnight from Calcutta to Mumbai, was about 90 miles (150 km) west of Calcutta when the bomb went off, and carriages and passengers were thrown into the path of a goods train travelling in the opposite direction. Rescue workers and paramedics are on scene and helicopters are airlifting casualties from the mangled carriages, but hundreds of people have yet to be cut free from the wreckage and the casualty toll is expected to rise. According to the West Bengal Director General of Police, Maoists have claimed responsibility for the incident with two posters by a local Maoist militia recovered from the site of the accident.
At least 65 people have been killed and around 200 people injured after a passenger train derailed by a suspected Maoist rebel bomb was hit by a freight train in West Bengal. The train, which was travelling overnight from Calcutta to Mumbai, was about 90 miles (150 km) west of Calcutta when the bomb went off, and carriages and passengers were thrown into the path of a goods train travelling in the opposite direction.
Rescue workers and paramedics are on scene and helicopters are airlifting casualties from the mangled carriages, but hundreds of people have yet to be cut free from the wreckage and the casualty toll is expected to rise.
According to the West Bengal Director General of Police, Maoists have claimed responsibility for the incident with two posters by a local Maoist militia recovered from the site of the accident.