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INTERNATIONAL – At least thirteen people were killed on Monday June 17 in eastern India after a collision between a passenger train and a goods convoy in the state of West Bengal. “39 passengers were admitted to a hospital with injuries”a local police officer, Iftikar-Ul-Hassan, told AFP.
The accident occurred at Phansidewa in Darjeeling district when the Kanchenjunga Express train was hit by a goods train. The images of the tangled wrecks of wagons, one of which was propelled towards the sky, as you can see in the video at the top of the articledemonstrate the brutality of the accident.
Police said emergency workers were searching the cars twisted and deformed by the violence of the impact to ensure that no other bodies were trapped inside. “We just saw the bodies of a deceased driver and guard…their bodies have been taken out”Rajesh Kumar Singh of the Railway Protection Force told AFP. “Other bodies could be at the accident site, but we are not sure yet”he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered his condolences to “those who have lost their loved ones”in a message on social networks, adding that “rescue operations are underway”.
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The chief minister of the eastern Indian state, Mamata Banerjee, called the accident a “tragic” in a message published on social networks. “Doctors, ambulances and rescue teams were dispatched to the scene”, she clarified. Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the “injured are transferred to hospital”.
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India, which has one of the world’s largest railway networks, has seen a large number of deadly train accidents in its history.
The safety of this network, used every day by millions of passengers, has however improved in recent years thanks to investments to modernize it by equipping it with modern stations and electronic signaling systems.
The deadliest accident in the country’s history remains that of June 6, 1981 when, in the state of Bihar (east), seven wagons from a train crossing a bridge fell into the Bagmati River, causing between 800 and 1,000 deaths. In June last year, nearly 300 people died in a collision between three trains in the eastern state of Odisha.
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